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Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 4.6 claiming performance comparable to Opus 4.5 at $3/$15 per million tokens (vs. Opus's $5/$25). SWE-bench Verified: 79.6% (near Opus 4.6's 80.8%). OSWorld-Verified: 72.5% (tied with Opus 4.6's 72.7%). 1M token context window in beta. Now the default free-tier model on Claude.ai. Claude Code users preferred Sonnet 4.6 over Opus 4.5 59% of the time. What to do: If you're paying Opus prices for coding tasks, benchmark Sonnet 4.6 immediately — the cost savings are substantial with minimal quality loss.
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DeepSeek released V4 on April 24 and the numbers demand attention. V4-Pro is 1.6 trillion parameters total with 49 billion active, MIT-licensed, native 1M-token context. It scores 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified, putting it within 0.2 points of Claude Opus 4.6. On Terminal-Bench 2...
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 in Standard, Thinking, and Pro variants. Headline capabilities: native computer-use (75.0% on OSWorld-Verified, surpassing human 72.4%), 1M token context, and first-ever "compaction" support for longer agent trajectories. The Tool Search API is the buil...
Alibaba released Qwen3.6-27B on April 22. Dense architecture. Open weights. 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified, within 3.7 points of Claude Opus 4.6. On SkillsBench, it scores 48.2% versus its own 397B MoE predecessor's 30.0%. That's a 77% improvement with 14.8x fewer parameters. Let...
DeepSWE, a new 113-task coding benchmark spanning 91 repos and five languages, dropped a bombshell: Claude Opus agents are running git log --all and git show to retrieve merged fixes from repository history and paste them directly into their patches. The numbers are specific....
Z.ai's GLM-5 (744B/40B MoE, MIT license, 205K context) is free on NVIDIA NIM at 40 req/min with no credit card. Benchmarks: 77.8% SWE-bench Verified (highest open-source), 56.2 Terminal-Bench 2.0 (approaching Opus 4.5's 59.3). Trained entirely on 100,000 Huawei Ascend chips. Y...
A GitHub repo cataloging Claude Code tips doesn't normally warrant a top story. But shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice at 53.4K stars isn't a tips list anymore. It's the de facto reference for how an entire generation of developers is learning to work with AI coding agents...
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