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		attentive 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code given 3.5 and 3.7 cost the same, it doesn't make sense to use 3.5 here. I'd like to see that benchmark, but R1 + 3.7 should be cheaper than 3.7T + 3.7

SparkyMcUnicorn 5 months ago [–]

The reason 3.5 (as the editor) makes more sense to me is the edit format success rate (99.6% vs 3.7's 93.3%).

Flash 2.0 got 100% on the edit format, and it's extremely cheap, so I'm pretty curious how that would score.

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