Mixed
And now in a heavy coding week rather than bumping up against my spend limit by late Wednesday or Thursday I'm comfortably below it all week
jerf on Hacker News
In the thread “Claude Sonnet 5”, replying to this comment
Helped: Lower spend limits and handling known tasks in pieces.
Got in the way: Model infers coding tasks from vague questions, requiring defensive prompting.
… No, but I don't have that problem all the time, and it's there if I do need it. And now in a heavy coding week rather than bumping up against my spend limit by late Wednesday or Thursday I'm comfortably below it all week. That said if anything I feel like I have to reign in K2.6 much more than Opus, actually. …