wish i was joking.
One team I worked with had tests for the product we made ranging from IE6 to IE11, for example. We did demos in-company where people would poke at the products before launch, play with it. When it reached production, it was rock solid stuff. Our motto was "quality is non-negotiable": we were willing to cut scope but never rush things.
I think things changed since then. "Move fast and break things" was a change, and the bill always comes.
Availability aside they've really made me appreciate OpenAI and cheer for other competitors in the marketplace even if I have mixed feelings about using Chinese models.
God save you if you have a company with narrow but correct technical tradeoffs, because you operate at scale.
Opus from 4.7 one will wreck your code and argue for hours with your engineers.
Certain parts of our company have had to mandate 4.6 and a training doc to explain why our current choice is both the cost efficient and performant one and shouldn't just be ripped out.
Newer models will re-litigate the same bad, known failed architectures over and over again.
I wonder if from now on we have to switch providers every six months or so.
We'll be fine no matter how Anthropic fares.
I still believe Claude has a better UI/UX in the web interface, but tolerating Anthropic's bullshit is not worth it.
The only issue with relying on local models is when you need them to prompt other models, and you minght need to offload or switch models constantly which adds significant overhead.
But when it all works, its truly awe inspiring.
bayganyo•29m ago