As long as they have the best model they can afford to lose goodwill.
People who don't wanna spend too much on LLMs and are trying to optimize whats subsidized even on the Max plans are customers Anthropic is honestly better off without.
Seems really good at frontend work, and as a result on remotion programmatic videos. Not the best yet, thats still Gemini 3.1 pro(trained on actual videos) or Fable, but often better than what Opus can come up with
Overall an improvement over Opus 4.8, but I'd still say Gemini 3.1 Pro has more of an artistic vision even tho it fails tool calls and writes buggy code sometimes.
Ik almost everyone is interested just in the SWE stuff, but this has been a good eval for me to think about how big the model is, how "creative" it is for generating new ideas etc.
Yep sorry was just pulling it out my rear, not like a market trend that nearly every enterprise uses Anthropic or Openai models for coding or that Anthropic has had such ridiculous growth that they're 10x-ing year over year
My point was that even openrouter, the one place people who are looking for open source SOTA models go to, doesn't definitively have opensource models at the top. Esp considering quite a lot of the closed models usage is through AWS, GCP , Azure etc, probably dwarfing the usage on openrouter by a huge factor
As long as closed source is 6 months ahead in terms of current difference. Although this is hard to figure out using simple percent based coding benchmarks, you def. notice it when you're actually trying to do a long task. Even simple things like UI "taste" is enough for me to use opus instead of 5.5 though even though 5.5 is strictly better for anything that doesn't have a UI, ie backend, scripts, making agent workflows etc
As long as closed models are 6 months ahead I won't be switching from them to prev. 6 month SOTA open source models. Maybe its just a different calculation if you're in a job, but as an indiehacker I'll take any edge I can get
Ofc again, can be convinced to switch if there's however a clear speed difference, like 5x+ for a open source sota even if it was SOTA for 6 months ago
Based on current market for LLMs I'd say my use of "you" in the general is fine. Even openrouter which doesn't capture all of the SOTA closed models but nearly all of opensource model usage has Opus as 1st(on last week) on "Programming" category and 3rd in overall rankings
Cost for the value delivered. Like if you offered the current SOTA open source models at $0.1/M, I still think I'd be using Opus or 5.5 at $30/M. Or say GPT 5 which was released Aug 25, I don't think I'd use it for coding for even $0.1. I'd def find other uses for it(translations, agentic workflows, prompt guards etc), but for coding I don't think I'd ever completely switch to a SOTA open model
Unless ofc there was an actual speed difference, only reason I'd be willing to go with a worse model couple of percent worse than current best model is if the speed was at least 5x higher. Looking forward to kimi k2.6 offered publicly by Cerebras
For coding you always want to go with the best model in the category, not something that would be the best model if we went 1 year back which GLM 5.1 is, and I'm saying that as a big fan of GLM cause I run a translation site where GLM is good enough for the price.
Most of the money right now is in coding. Openai and Anthropic just have to be 6 months ahead of SOTA open source models and they'll capture most of the enterprise and dev market
If nothing else this blog did give me the idea that I should split my $200 claude max plan into two $100 CC max and $100 codex plan, esp because Claude is now offering 1.5x weekly limits so its the 5x usage is now more like 7.5x usage.
I think its just a visual/default thing, cause Opus 4.0 isn't offered on claude code anymore. And opus 4.7 is on their official docs as a model you can change to, on claude code
People who don't wanna spend too much on LLMs and are trying to optimize whats subsidized even on the Max plans are customers Anthropic is honestly better off without.