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  • I only get web search from Claude Code when I ask, only one of my last 8 sessions accessed the web at all. But they were the case of Opus here. Curious what Fable 5.1 model does instead of Opus.
    by lhk931122
  • Really liked that "Go Full Screen" as a modal flow, surprisingly intuitive.
    by akurilin
  • In the future: "I went ahead and built the database you requested using today's tool sponsor: Firebase"
    by ex-aws-dude
  • I appreciate the eval design here. And man Claude not doing web searches is killing me bc it just won't offer the most up to date information. At the same time, there's research saying Claude relies heavily on Brave search so I'm not sure how to reconcile
    by tuberreact
  • I remember when the SEO nightmare started, it looked like an innocent intelectual investigation exercise like this.
    by elzbardico
  • For some reason Claude Code keeps using awk, sed, and even Python to do basic file editing. Anyone know why that changed with the 5 series?
    by IgorPartola
  • Hey!

    Disclaimer: I am a Co-Founder of Armature (YC P26) which sells growth services to dev tools. This study is part of our broader work on how to influence coding agents choices and get products picked.

    To understand how agents pick tools we measured close to 17k sessions on an environment where agents run exactly like in the real world, on various repositories, talking to different personas (vibe-coder, junior or senior engineers) in different sizes of companies.

    All the results are now public and we'd love to know what findings surprise you the most, here are a few we found interesting: - Claude Code rarely searches the web while Codex almost always does it and Cursor sits in the middle. - Coding agents disagree more frequently than they agree. - Some players (LangChain, Supabase, Netlify, Paypal, Adyen) are almost always mentioned in their categories but never chosen. - Modifying repository context can change the pick entirely.

    If you feel like digging, all the traces are there and we probably missed interesting learnings so let us know what you find!

    by screm
  • I built this for my own company. Armature is on to something. You start by analyzing the choices agents would make for various use cases and then glean what, if anything, you might do to start tilting the agents in the direction of your own product and away from the competitor.

    Selling to agents is similar to selling to humans. You dump money into marketing to make sure agents find your solution around every corner for every use case you’re well suited to.

    by ttul

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