I wonder if you use it exclusively for coding, because for general purpose explanation tasks, 3.7 seems absolutely terrible unfortunately.

Back when it was 3.5 you could actually talk and learn things and it felt humane, but now it sounds like a McKinsey-corpo in a suit who sounds all fancy but is only right half the time.

I’ve switched back (rather regretfully) to chatgpt, and holy hell is its personality much better. For example just try asking it to explain differences between Neo Grotesque and Geometrical Sans Serif fonts/typefaces. One sounds like a friend trying to explain, the other sounds like a soulless bot. (And if you have 3.5 access, try asking it too.)

I use it just for coding.

For general inference I use 4.5

I think OpenAI (and likely others) are on the right to track to acknowledge that different model tunings are best for different uses, and they interned to add a discriminator that can direct prompts to the best tuned model/change model tuning in real time.

I got much better results with o3-mini than Claude for coding. Get the high level design wkth o3 or o1 and then use gpt4 or Claude for small tasks.