I lost an afternoon to Opus 4.7 last week

Claude Opus 4.7 feels worse because it stopped covering for your implicit prompts. 3 practices to fix it. And why AGI is not coming anytime soon.

I lost an afternoon to Opus 4.7 last week — installed it mid-project, watched it take longer than 4.6 and then fail. Half my feed was already complaining.

Burned my usage limit faster than expected — 4.7 costs more per token than 4.6. Switched to Gemini to get things done.

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