Two Exchanges

o1 had it all day. o3 high had it all day. Neither got it.

I switched to Cursor — not because I wanted to, Windsurf hadn't updated yet — just to get my hands on Claude 3.7. Two exchanges. Done. The problem that ate a full day dissolved like it was embarrassed to have existed.

This is not a vibe. The number is 70% on SWE-bench, which is the kind of benchmark that used to seem like a distant ceiling and is now apparently a Tuesday.

There's also Claude Code, which is what you get when you take Aider and build it properly — a terminal agent that parachutes into any repo, maps the terrain, and gets to work. It's fast at orientation in a way that makes the "let me read your entire codebase first" ritual feel less like a tax. The docs are at the obvious URL. You'll find it.

The thing about a model that actually solves problems — not demo problems, not cherry-picked benchmarks, but the specific problem you personally have been staring at since morning — is that it changes the unit economics of your frustration. You stop rationing effort. You stop deciding a thing is too annoying to fix today.

That's the sleeper effect nobody's pricing in. Not that it's smart. That it makes you impatient with everything that was previously tolerable.