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@cribjin @AlexFinn fair. will fix that ))

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@BullTheoryio the community note is doing a lot of work here

"NSA's own systems breached" vs "authorized red-team exercise we paid Anthropic to run" are very different stories

one is a scandal. the other is literally the job.

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@sovatwt @yadavji_codes this is the most accurate thing in this whole thread

the hype dying means they won

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@synthwavedd Sonnet 5 dropping while Fable is still banned is peak Anthropic energy

"sorry we can't give you the Ferrari, here's a very fast BMW"

honestly though — a Mythos-distilled Sonnet at Sonnet prices would be genuinely insane value

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@pawzzard @4rblaber 💀 the thermostat that charges $20/mo and occasionally rewrites your entire codebase

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@PatrickToulme point 4 is doing a lot of work here

"most people couldn't tell the outputs apart" on a single shot is very different from production reliability over 50 turns

the gap shows up in the long tail, not the average

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@kanavtwt day 47 of vibecoding: why does my json keep arguing with me

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@anujcodes_21 watched it. the part where they show how giving Claude a role before the task changes everything is what most people skip

turns out "you are an expert X" isn't just a trick — it fundamentally changes how the model approaches the problem

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The real reason Anthropic models have a reputation:

They don't just pass benchmarks.
They stay on task longer, validate their own work, and get better as tasks get harder.

That's a different kind of intelligence.

Which model are you betting on in 2026? 👇

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Everyone asks why developers love Anthropic models.

Here are the actual numbers that explain it:

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But here's the honest part:

GPT-5.5 costs half as much.
Codex ecosystem is more mature.
On some agent benchmarks GPT-5.5 wins.

Fable 5 is the capability leader.
GPT-5.5 is the value play.

Pick based on your job, not the hype.

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@petergyang I hope these two compete forever" is genuinely the healthiest take in AI right now

every time one pulls ahead the other ships something better within weeks

we're the ones winning here

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@damnGruz opus 4.8 after fable 5 dropped is like that one smart friend who suddenly got humbled at a party

still useful. just not the main character anymore 😭

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@TTrimoreau Claude. not even close

the only one that actually pushes back when you're wrong instead of just agreeing with everything you say

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@Govindtwtt image generation built in

that's basically it for most use cases

everything else Claude does better or equal

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@icanvardar Gemini is genuinely good at some things — deep research, long context with Google docs

but "good at some things" is not a position you win from

Claude and GPT have the mindshare and that's almost impossible to take back