[Npovview]

Why should I need to talk to Opus 4.7 when my day-to-day task is about programming in Java and Python? I don't need my model to know about biology or chemistry. If I need those capabilities (for someone who is working as software engineer in chemical industry), I will talk to Opus 4.7 for planning and then fan-out work for cheaper coding models. I think we will soon start to see specialized highly effective English language only programming models. I don't need my coding model to know about literature, art, philosphy, ethics, etc.

[strix_varius]

If there were a coding model as good as opus that didn't know multiple languages, biology, etc, I would happily use it. But I'm not aware of one - are you?

It actually seems somewhat difficult to train such a model since "all the text on the Internet" is easier to provide in bulk than a highly curated set.

[caspar]

Well language detection isn't all that hard in the scheme of things (especially now), but maybe having only training on English makes models less effective programmers. It would be interesting to see that as an experiment.

[kisper]

I would think that the surrounding chemical "knowledge" could be useful in the context of programming in that industry. Have you ever found it to draw links and conclusions between what you're doing in computer science and the chemistry it's in the middle of?

[Npovview]

I would use Opus 4.7 for the planning stage where chemical knowledge is required then delegate to smaller English-Programming-Only-Opus to do the actual coding.