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title: Sonnet is the opposite of lazy
excerpt: Claude 3.5 Sonnet represents a step change in AI coding.
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# Sonnet is the opposite of lazy
[![sonnet is the opposite of lazy](/assets/sonnet-not-lazy.jpg)](https://aider.chat/assets/sonnet-not-lazy.jpg)
Claude 3.5 Sonnet represents a step change
in AI coding.
It is so industrious, diligent and hard working that
it has caused multiple problems for aider.
It's been worth the effort to adapt aider to work well
with Sonnet,
because the result is surprisingly powerful.
Sonnet's score on
[aider's refactoring benchmark](https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/#code-refactoring-leaderboard)
jumped from 55.1% up to 64.0%
as a result of the changes discussed below.
This moved Sonnet into second place, ahead of GPT-4o and
behind only Opus.
## Problems
Sonnet's amazing work ethic caused a few problems:
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2. Similarly, Sonnet can specify large sequences of edits in one go,
like changing a majority of lines while refactoring a large file.
Again, this regularly triggered the 4k output limit
and resulted in a failed edits.
and resulted in failed edits.
3. Sonnet is not shy about quoting large chunks of an
existing file to perform a SEARCH & REPLACE edit across
a long span of lines.
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Faced with a few small changes spread far apart in
a source file,
Sonnet would often prefer to do one giant SEARCH/REPLACE
operation of the ~entire file.
operation of almost the entire file.
This wastes a tremendous amount of tokens,
time and money -- and risks hitting the 4k output limit.
It would be far faster and less expensive to instead
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- Aider allows Sonnet to produce as much code as it wants,
by automatically and seamlessly spreading the response
out over a sequence of 4k token API responses.
- Aider carefully prompts Sonnet to be concise and
return only changing sections of code.
- Aider carefully prompts Sonnet to be concise when proposing
code edits.
This reduces Sonnet's tendency to waste time, tokens and money
returning large chunks of unchanging code.
- Aider now uses `claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620` by default if `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` is set in the environment.
- Aider now uses Claude 3.5 Sonnet by default if the `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` is set in the environment.
You can use aider with Sonnet like this:
See
[aider's install instructions](https://aider.chat/docs/install.html)
for more details, but
you can get started quickly with aider and Sonnet like this:
```
pip install aider-chat