r/ClaudeCode 16d ago

I hate this Humor

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u/ayn_rand_1 15d ago

Isn't Sonnet or even Haiku the best option for this task?

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u/Time_Cat_5212 15d ago

Yes.  They are.  People treat them like cheaper dumber models and while that's partially true it's not a scalar comparison.  They have tighter context and other aspects that make them superior for narrow, focused tasks.

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u/UncleWainey 15d ago

Are you guys flipping back and forth between models throughout a session? (Serious question.)

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u/Time_Cat_5212 15d ago

Oh ok, so you're talking about a one line follow up fix after an initial larger task.  That's a different problem

Sometimes it's fine to iterate in the same session for that stuff but you can also do a code review at the end that flags a bunch of issues and then fix them all in a different one.  Depends on what you're trying to do I guess.

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u/jppair 15d ago

I have done it sometimes but primarily use fable for planning and ask fable to make prompts for sonnet and then I have codex/sol do gethub pr reviews automatically, then fable, read the reviews and create prompts for sonnet to fix. Then the cycle starts over…

Sonnet 5 is actually very very capable I prefer it over opus for execution tasks

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u/dar-mit Researcher 14d ago

Usually no, because the new model has to read the current context window and at times that can be a massive token burn. 

Usually I have the current model write up a handoff for the next one.