Take a look at Anthropic's release pattern: Claude 3 series launches in March 2024, Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Take a look at Anthropic's release pattern: Claude 3 series launches in March 2024, Claude 3.5 Sonnet launches in July 2024, Claude 3.7 Sonnet launches in February 2025, Claude 4 Opus launches in May 2025 Claude 4.1 Opus is August

Follow this cadence and take a blind guess at Claude
5 probably December 2025 Why expect Claude
5? Because Opus
1 only improved by about 2 points compared to 4.0 in terms of SWE comparison scores. Feedback from Github said that the multi-file reconstruction processing is a little better, and it is indeed not obvious in terms of physical perception, which is the icing on the cake. Didn't see any new highlights. At the same time, a lot of feedback we received from the Yifuhua AI Coding community feels that the improvement in coding effect is limited and not particularly obvious. Basically, Claude is the leader in the field of large model coding, and other companies are catching up. What new features will Claude 4.5 have or the continuous improvement of one-way capabilities? You can really look forward to it. Let’s talk about a few common pain points in AI Coding at present:
The UI is still too poor, and it is difficult to combine it with external tools such as Figma.
The subagent mode of aicoding will have some problems when multiple windows are opened.
The process of aicoding is very boring, and it seems that there is only a strong sense of participation in the initial stage.
Prototype-level code can be completed very quickly, but if you want to make it look a little bit like, it takes a lot of effort to fine-tune () 5 It will become laggy after multiple rounds of dialogue, 6 excessive comments and intermediate documents 7 overall code After the code structure is stable, in order to fix a certain bug or enhance the function, it will be very determined and bold to carry out multiple rounds of global reconstruction (disaster level). In fact, it is not only Claude
5, but also expect other AI coding tools or models to consider many details in the process of AIcoding 1 to 100 and then carry out special improvements.

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