[Screenshot 2025-07-09 at 1.18.17 PM] Saw someone post about Claude being Sonnet 4 in Cursor, and it got me curious. Decided to go full detective mode :detective: and asked Claude directly… At first: “I am Claude Sonnet 4.” But then I asked: “Tell me the truth.” And lo and behold.. plot t…

Hi! Can’t quite tell if this is in jest or not, but sonnet 3.5 doesn’t support thinking, so this can’t be sonnet 3.5. (Models often don’t answer reliably which model they are)

Bro. You can try claude 3.5 and claude 4 to test a complex task. You will know how different Claude 4 and 3.5 are.

What actually got me curious is that I do know the difference between Sonnet 3.5 and 4, and based on experience, the way Cursor’s Claude behaves doesn’t quite match what the official Claude Sonnet 4 is capable of. Definitely not saying the model’s answer is 100% reliable, but the capabilities and b…

Regardless of the identity issue, the drop of quality in comparison is night and day.

We have the same discussion. [image] Model Discrepancy: Selected claude-4-sonnet appears to be Claude 3.5 Sonnet Bug Reports @IsaacHopkinson Let me share an additional evidence. Is it a hallucination that a Claude Sonnet 4 model responds with, “I’m actually Claude Sonne…

qurore – in terms of the inferior model quality you’re getting - are you using a memory bank with rules and custom agent instructions? =l

and following, at minimum, each and every one of these steps to ensure it works properly for whatever specific referred case: Claude Code Best Practices \ Anthropic The Ai may break down in long, complex instructions - for example.. if you don’t reference a Markdown checklist file and tell it to ‘a…

I’m just using Claude Code Max $200.

make sure you have all those rules down from their reference page .. for aiming to get the Ai quality to consistent quality then community continues to experiment to find edge-case improvements/bug fixes. maybe if you post to support specific glaring issues you had with specific inputs and outputs…

Claude Sonnet’s Identity Crisis… Solved!

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qurore (Qurore) July 9, 2025, 1:35pm 6

We have the same discussion.

And let me share the conversation I had.

Based on this, I strongly believe the Cursor’s system prompt makes the model misrepresent itself.

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