Yes indeed, the cheap models still produce slop. Slightly annoying because I’d love to use them for personal projects, but as you say I can’t really justify the cost.
For work though it’s a no brainer, given my salary and the productivity boost. At my previous company I sometimes spent an entire day debugging a complex test failure that Claude can figure out in 5 minutes. No exaggeration.
Agreed. I use it for coding too. Even using it as a kind of interactive editor is a huge productivity boost. E.g. I was working on some assertions that were all like assert (... |-> a && b && c) (|-> is implication) and I was like "Claude, split the consequent conjunctions into separate assertions " and it did it in about 5 seconds, vs 10 minutes of tedious hand editing.
Yes indeed, the cheap models still produce slop. Slightly annoying because I’d love to use them for personal projects, but as you say I can’t really justify the cost.
For work though it’s a no brainer, given my salary and the productivity boost. At my previous company I sometimes spent an entire day debugging a complex test failure that Claude can figure out in 5 minutes. No exaggeration.
Being able to find the cause of a bug and being able to build a decent codebase from scratch are definetly not the same
Agreed. I use it for coding too. Even using it as a kind of interactive editor is a huge productivity boost. E.g. I was working on some assertions that were all like
assert (... |-> a && b && c)(|->is implication) and I was like "Claude, split the consequent conjunctions into separate assertions " and it did it in about 5 seconds, vs 10 minutes of tedious hand editing.