Both new Sonnet and Haiku have a masking overhead.
Using a few messages to get them out of "I aim to be direct" AI assistant mode gets much better overall results for the rest of the chat.
Haiku is actually incredibly good at high level systems thinking. Somehow when they moved to a smaller model the "human-like" parts fell away but the logical parts remained at a similar level.
Like if you were taking meeting notes from a business strategy meeting and wanted insights, use Haiku over Sonnet, and thank me later.
Using a few messages to get them out of "I aim to be direct" AI assistant mode gets much better overall results for the rest of the chat.
Haiku is actually incredibly good at high level systems thinking. Somehow when they moved to a smaller model the "human-like" parts fell away but the logical parts remained at a similar level.
Like if you were taking meeting notes from a business strategy meeting and wanted insights, use Haiku over Sonnet, and thank me later.