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date: "2026-04-18T13:23:11.000Z"
title: "2026-04-18"
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I spent yesterday working on a personal project to build some software with my personal agent, struggling mightily when I didn't expect to.
Opus 4.7 was recently released.
And in the back of my mind the whole time, I thought to switch my agent over to it, but mostly forgot.
Progress on the project was an absolute struggle.
And today, since switching over to 4.7, everything has been going great.
This gets brought up pretty much every time Anthropic releases a new model, but GPUs have to come from somewhere.
And it's hard to imagine they didn't do something like quantize Opus 4.6 to unlock capacity for 4.7.
Obviously, or maybe not so obviously, I don't yet have a benchmark that's repeatable in such a way that I can prove 4.6 has regressed, but the vibes say that it has.
Now I'm on 4.7, but I'm reasonably happy for now.
Another model release, another conspiracy.