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Cherny: Claude 3.5 Sonnet Is Terrible by Modern Standards
“This was like Sonnet 3.5. At the time, that was an incredible coding model. That was like the best coding model that exists. Nowadays, it's, you know, a pretty terrible coding model by modern standards. But I think that was like the first great coding model th…”
Boris Cherny Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 12:17 Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
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Hu: OpenAI reasoning models are catching up to Claude 3.5 Sonnet
“The thing about CodeGen, the big game in town that we saw, ah, six months ago was Clawed Sonnet. It's still actually a big contender. Most are still using it. But O-one, O-one Pro, and O-three meaning all these resilient models are starting to see it's almost …”
Diana Hu Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 8:50 Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet wrote AppleScript unprompted to detect Cherny's playing music
“And I asked it, what music am I listening to? He wrote some, like, Apple script to script my Mac and look up the music in my music player. And this was sauna 3.5.”
Boris Cherny Feb 17, 2026 ▶ 5:15 Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
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