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Re:Gemini 3 for developers: New reasoning, agentic capabilities by meowface on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @02:02PM (#45970474)
I think this is probably just a matter of noise. That's not been my experience with Sonnet 4.5 too often.

Every model from every provider at every version I've used has intermingled brilliant perfect instruction-following and weird mistaken divergence.

Re:Gemini 3 for developers: New reasoning, agentic capabilities by adastra22 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @06:20PM (#45973629)
What do you mean by noise?

In this case I can't get 4.5 to follow directions. Neither can anyone else, aparantly. Search for "Sonnet 4.5 follow instructions" and you'll find plenty of examples. The current top 2:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1nu1o17/45_47_5...

https://theagentarchitect.substack.com/p/claude-sonnet-4-pro...