Also, sometimes older models work fine, Opus 4.8/4.6/4.5 are worth trying.
I would go as far as saying they are sometimes better than the newer ones! It is impressive that Opus 5 can one-shot a complex website, but it is very annoying if I only asked it to write tests.
Last week, I asked Sonnet 5 to add one line to the documentation, commit, and push. Ten minutes later, I discovered it embarked on a side quest of exploring my whole Git history, different branches, etc.
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I would go as far as saying they are sometimes better than the newer ones! It is impressive that Opus 5 can one-shot a complex website, but it is very annoying if I only asked it to write tests.
Last week, I asked Sonnet 5 to add one line to the documentation, commit, and push. Ten minutes later, I discovered it embarked on a side quest of exploring my whole Git history, different branches, etc.