Claude Sonnet★★★★★
Excellent for refactoring large codebases
Sample review: handled a multi-file refactor with clear explanations at each step. Minor slowdowns on very long contexts.
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Sample review: handled a multi-file refactor with clear explanations at each step. Minor slowdowns on very long contexts.
Sample review: image understanding was noticeably better than the previous version we used for support tickets with screenshots.
Sample review: good tone control for long-form writing, occasionally over-explains simple points.
Sample review: dropped an entire research paper corpus in and got coherent synthesis across the whole set.
Sample review: not as strong on complex reasoning tasks but the cost makes it viable for high-volume, lower-stakes use cases.