# Claude 4.5 (Anthropic)

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-4-5/

23 people recommended Claude 4.5 (Anthropic) in Hacker News comments, 8 had mixed feelings and 10 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 12 months, in 23 threads. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for strong coding and chat output, with fast, clean results and a good feel to use. The most common caveat is that it still makes mistakes and needs close supervision on complex codebases.

Summary written by Claude from 41 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 39 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Strong coding and task performance (4 comments in the sample): "There are tasks that you'd have to reroll 3.5 til the end of the universe that 4.5 would one shot." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663361)) "For the work I am doing, I found Claude 4.5 (both models) to be absolutely unchallenged." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086049)) "It tends to produce very good, clean, well-documented code and tests." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46340006))
- Good feel and tooling (3 comments in the sample): "Much better feel with the Claude 4.5 series, for both chat and coding." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821515)) "Claude 4.5 just works and it's crazy good." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011302)) "Claude has better tooling and UX." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359591))
- Fast and efficient to use (1 comment in the sample): "I also feel like 4.5 was just way more efficient too" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057620))
- Understands what users want (1 comment in the sample): "4.5 would make sure it understands what I want" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672918))

## What people warn about

- Makes frequent mistakes and hallucinations (2 comments in the sample): "The context grows very quickly and the LLM gets lost and starts hallucinating." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922443)) "It makes mistakes every day." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339809))
- Reverts fixes and rewrites model calls (2 comments in the sample): "will often just randomly rewrite calls to GPT5 to GPT4o, or Claude 4.5 to Claude 3.5" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45989468)) "Claude 4.5 often starts reverting bug fixes ~50k tokens back" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906745))
- Overly agreeable, sycophantic replies (2 comments in the sample): "Even Claude 4.5 models are still somewhat prone to "You're absolutely right!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239941)) "Of course they did, they are sycophants" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114791))

## Other language models people recommend

- [Claude Opus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-opus/): 1880 recommend, 852 mixed, 2013 criticize
- [Fable](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fable/): 803 recommend, 359 mixed, 1291 criticize
- [OpenAI GPT](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-5-5/): 764 recommend, 290 mixed, 764 criticize
- [DeepSeek V4 Flash](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepseek-v4-flash/): 631 recommend, 127 mixed, 168 criticize

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.anthropic.com/)

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Claude 4.5 (Anthropic)", https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-4-5/ (23 recommend, 8 mixed, 10 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.