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Tried 4.7 on a few of my regular workloads. The quality ceiling is definitely higher than 4.6 when it actually engages — but that's the problem. "Adaptive thinking" seems to actively avoid thinking on tasks where I'd expect it to reason carefully, and I end up getting flat, fast answers where I wanted depth. Turning off adaptive thinking and bumping effort to high gets me closer to what I want, but at that point the token cost becomes hard to justify vs. just using a smaller model with explicit CoT. Feels like Anthropic is solving a cost optimization problem and calling it a feature.

I think the article conflates two different things: the idea of passive income and the grift around it. Having a SaaS product that runs while you sleep isn't a trap — it's just good business design. The trap is paying $997 for a course on how to do it. And what makes it worse is the survivorship bias baked into these communities. The ones loudly promoting passive income strategies are almost always making their money teaching passive income — not from the strategies themselves. The actual successful indie founders I know are pretty quiet about it. The concept isn't broken; the ecosystem around selling the dream is.