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I have found this to be true too and I thought I was the only one. Everyone is praising 4.6 and while it’s great at agentic and tool use, it does not follow instructions as cleanly as 4.5 - I also feel like 4.5 was just way more efficient too

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I think that's because not everyone does the same job within the same stack and constraints. I'm yet to find an LLM that writes the kind of C++ I dabble with without having to manually tweak it myself (or that truly understands our codebase). Conversely, I find that LLMs are now excellent at python and orchestration tasks for instance. It's very situational

100% - you are very right. 4.6 is amazing for orchestration. I even built some tools around agent to agent contracting.

I use 4.6 as the brain and then handoff to a more rigid llm like GPT 5.2 or Opus 4.5

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