I'm still very happily using Claude Code + Opus 4.5, and am distressed by the idea of losing access to that specific model in a few months. In my experience, 4.5 is very much worth $100/month, whereas 4.6 is basically worthless. I'm honestly not even interested in trying out 4.7. The unfortunate reality of these black boxes is that what makes a particular model shine is very hard to understand and replicate, so you end up with an unpredictable product direction, not something that is steadily improving.
I've found that Opus 4.6 is happy to read a significant amount of the codebase in preparation to do something, whereas Opus 4.5 tends to be much more efficient and targeted about pulling in relevant context.
Maybe it’s just me, but I have serious issue with Fastmail’s spam filtering. Meaning, it seems that I am the spam filter. I find myself considering closing the account on a regular basis because of it.
I am also extremely frustrated with Gmail’s AI features now being apparently impossible to disable.
My hope is this will lead to the reversal of the insane "HDR auto-brightness" behavior that causes any photo marked as HDR to go extreme brightness mode while the rest of the screen darkens:
I say this as someone with an extremely negative opinion of Facebook/Meta/Zuck: there are communities that only exist on Facebook, in the form of private groups. If you want to reach those communities, you have no other choice but to meet them where they are. Same problem with Twitter/X...