Matt Pocock on AI Coding: Ignore Release Noise

Matt Pocock says he pays £180/month for Claude Code Ultra and considers the much-criticized Opus models still SOTA-enough, focusing on optimizing the model's environment rather than chasing weekly releases.

2026-11-03 ~ 2026-11-03 · 3 related posts

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• Matt Pocock: ignoring model-release noise, Opus 4.7-5 were SOTA enough for him — mattpocockuk · 2026-11-03