"Stop Shipping Agentic Coding One-Tricks": Redditor Longs for Claude 4.5 Era Writing
warlordthe99th · reddit · 2026-09-12
A Reddit user pleads with labs to stop making every new release an agentic-coding specialist. He praises the 4.5 lineup — Sonnet's emotional long-form style vs Opus's terse goal-oriented output, plus extended thinking that always worked — and says newer models feel like an "annoying Sonnet clone" with ignored user preferences and inconsistent thinking modes. He doesn't care about benchmark gains and misses the "intuitive oracle" interface, comparing post-4.5 models to Beyblade generations that were technically superior but lost all character.
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