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I had access to a preview over the weekend, I published some notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/29/claude-sonnet-4-5/

It's very good - I think probably a tiny bit better than GPT-5-Codex, based on vibes more than a comprehensive comparison (there are plenty of benchmarks out there that attempt to be more methodical than vibes).

It particularly shines when you try it on https://claude.ai/ using its brand new Python/Node.js code interpreter mode. Try this prompt and see what happens:

  Checkout https://github.com/simonw/llm and run the tests with
  
  pip install -e '.[test]'
  pytest
I then had it iterate on a pretty complex database refactoring task, described in my post.
parent simonw 1 year ago

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