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Does it seem to anyone else like even frontier models have a very "jagged" range of capabilities?

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I mostly use Claude Opus 5 and 4.8. I'm amazed at the "unevenness" in capability across different tasks. In some domains, it makes me wonder how certain professions still exist. For example, I uploaded my company's bank statements for each month this year, and within five or ten minutes, it had eig…

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  1. 2026-09-17 21:21 · r/artificial
    Does it seem to anyone else like even frontier models have a very "jagged" range of capabilities?

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