[pizza]

o1:

- better for when the response has to address many subgoals coherently

- usually will not undo previous bugfix progress that was made earlier in the conversation, whereas with Claude if you start having extremely long conversations I have noticed it allowing certain bugs it had already fixed to be reintroduced at much later times

Claude:

- image inputs are actually very complementary for debugging issues, esp if visual at all (eg debugging why a GUI framework rendered your UI in an unexpected way, just include a screenshot)

- surprisingly very good at taking descriptions of algorithmic or mathematical procedures and making captioned svg illustrations, then taking screenshots of those svgs + user feedback to enhance the next version of svg illustrations

- more recent knowledge cutoff, so generally speaking somewhat less likely to deny newer APIs/things exist (eg o1 told me tokenizer.apply_chat_template and meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct both did not exist and removed them both from the code I was feeding it)

[notnotrishi]

thanks!

> with Claude if you start having extremely long conversations I have noticed it allowing certain bugs it had already fixed to be reintroduced at much later times

i think this is a result of its inability to handle long contexts well?