Reading up on Sonnet

Anthropic updated Claude’s voice mode to use Sonnet/Opus models, add Gmail/Slack context, and improve language support, while noting its turn‑based design limits naturalness.

The author learned to let Claude Code's Fable model use its own judgement to delegate coding tasks to lower-power models, improving efficiency and token usage.

An experiment using Claude Code to autonomously optimize a file compression algorithm over 10 iterations, achieving competitive results against standard tools by iterating on an LZSS-based approach.

The future of AI is powerful general models becoming cheaper, not narrow custom models, because specialized tasks still benefit from broad intelligence.