[holografix]

I don’t think Opus and Sonnet are significantly better than Gemini or ChatGPT. Am I missing something?

It looks to me that Anthropic is one or two Gemmas away from a lot of people using Opus for 20% of hard use cases and letting on-device LLM rip through the code base on a Mac Mini or Studio and OpenCode.

Once Claude Code is not the only game in town and Cowork is made redundant by Google pulling their finger out on integration with Workspace, what else is there for Anthropic?

[zozbot234]

On-device agentic use is orders of magnitude harder than simple chatting (which is still slow for SOTA), it uses up a huge amount of context and tokens on reading code and reasoning through it. It's sort of viable if you just set it to work overnight on some completely vibe-coded stuff, but that has very middling results. Giving feedback to the model interactively is completely out of the question.

Where open models can make a difference for agentic use is with third-party inference at scale, which can actually be fast enough for reasonable workflows.