[stavros]

I just spent $35 for Opus to solve a problem with a hardware side-project (I'm turning an old rotary phone into a meeting handset so I can quit meetings by hanging up, if you must know). It didn't solve the problem, it churned and churned and spent a ton of money.

I was much more satisfied with o3 and Aider, I haven't tried them on this specific problem but I did quite a bit of work on the same project with them last night. I think I'm being a bit unfair, because what Claude got stuck on seems to be a hard problem, but I don't like how they'll happily consume all my money trying the same things over and over, and never say "yeah I give up".

[antgiant]

For basically that same price you could get one of these :-)

https://www.amazon.com/Cell2jack-Cellphone-Adapter-Receive-l...

[stavros]

Where's the fun in that?!

[antgiant]

Enjoy yourself! Don’t let me spoil your fun :-)

[stavros]

Oh I'm not! I'll post it here when I'm done, it's already hilarious.

[sans_souse]

wait, you're using a rotary phone ?

[stavros]

I want to!

[alecco]

Give them feedback.

[stavros]

Feedback on what?

[CamperBob2]

When I obtain results from one paid model that are significantly better than what I previously got from another paid model, I'll typically give a thumbs-down to the latter and point out in the comment that it was beaten by a competitor. Can't hurt.

[stavros]

Ah, this wasn't from the web interface, I was using Claude Code. I don't think it has a feedback mechanism.