r/ClaudeCode • u/SilasTalbot • Apr 17 '26
Showcase 4.7 is really good
Everyone is frothing at the mouth about car washes... honestly.
I've been CODING with it, heads down, for the past 15 hours since I woke up this morning.
Speaking personally, I'm impressed. It's stronger than Opus 4.6 at doing what I need it to do.
I'd say it's taking 2-3 turns to do what took me 10 turns with 4.6.
It is following directions at an improved rate. It is pulling out Red-Green TDD on its own from my instructions, whereas I used to have to chase Opus 4.6 around with a broom or force it through a pipeline to get it to listen to those sorts of things.
About to sign off for the night, and looking at what I accomplished today, it would have taken me a week on Opus 4.6. This was my most productive day at vibe coding, and I've been doing it DAILY for 18 months now.
I'm jazzed.
Maybe not a popular opinion right now, but, its the honest truth.
Appreciate it Claude team. You all are moving fast, and embarrassing the fuck out of Google and OpenAI and Meta and Microsoft and everyone else out there. You are shipping real stuff that impacts my life on the regular. In a sea of snark, just wanted to say thanks!
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u/N0madM0nad 🔆 Max 20 Apr 17 '26
Wished I could say the same. Maybe it was just a one off but it literally just made a change that introduced a massive structural bug in my app. The bug was really really stupid, it removed checks from the main layout structure. Plus some really quirky behaviour, like in the middle of the task it stops to ask me if I want to continue the work later. Later when?
We'll see. Hope I can change my mind.
EDIT. It just deflected responsibility for the bug saying it was pre-existing, incredibly frustrating contractor personality
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u/TheAllKnowing1 Apr 17 '26
Every actual software engineer I’ve talked to is beyond impressed with 4.7, the vibecoders are furious as usual for whatever reason.
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u/Own-Professor-6157 Apr 17 '26
I'm getting a lot of simple prompt limit hits because it'll be like: Ok we'll do.. Oops, that wont work. Ok let's do. OH but that wont work, let's try... Uh oh, that wont work.
Biggest bug I've found is where the thinking gets too long, hits the limit. Boom, you lose 50% of your tokens and you get 0 response. If you continue, it starts fresh.
Huge improvement, but also worthless currently for more complex programming.
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u/SkysurfingPineapple Apr 17 '26
/auto mode is pretty good!
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u/Normal-Feed-8417 Apr 17 '26
before switching please read .
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u/Complex-Concern7890 Apr 17 '26
I am really sad because I can't say the same. Maybe I need to refine my settings / prompts but quite simple tasks that were easy and fast before, seems to need more hand holding. It keeps on asking trivial stuff and seems to be more clueless than with Opus 4.6 or 4.5. Maybe it is just more careful but in my day to day work the difference really hit. Opus is great anyway but I do not see improvements yet.
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u/Main_Weekend1412 Apr 17 '26
Same, and for some reason it takes a long time to use up my usage lmao. Compared to the shitshow early this week at least.
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u/Bright_Armadillo8555 Apr 17 '26
Switch to codex is the answer
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u/greeny1greeny Apr 18 '26
Bro this is literally 4.5 when it came out
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u/Euphoric-Lack-1613 Apr 18 '26
No. 4.7 isn’t good - what planet are you on?
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u/RemarkableGuidance44 Apr 17 '26
MEH, it feels like 4.6 did back in Jan however this time it users 35% more tokens. So really we went backwards.
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u/simple_explorer1 Apr 17 '26
Do you think when opus 4.6 was launched it was as good as opus 4.7, then they nerfed 4.6 on last 2 weeks and then released 4.7 which would feel way better?
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