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by zambelli 53 days ago
I'll echo what's been said. I use Opus for long running coding tasks - mainly for its stability with long context. I can knock out huge chunks of a project in a single conversation without any attention degradation.

Sonnet's reasoning is very solid and that's what I use at work when I need many API calls to reason on variations of things. Ie, numerical trial results, experiment outcomes, etc. Independent queries, Opus pricing would be overkill, context small enough that Sonnet knocks it out.

I think the same is true for code. I'd use Sonnet for hammering out unit tests, API wrappers, etc.