Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

Why can't they count to 4?

I accepted it when Knuth did it with TeX's versioning. And I sort of accept it with Python (after the 2-3 transition fiasco), but this is getting annoying. Why not just use natural numbers for major releases?

I think I heard on a podcast with some of their team that they want 4 to be a massive jump. If I recall, they said that they want Haiku (the smallest of their current gen models) to be as good as Opus (the highest version, although there isn't one in the 3.5+ line) of the previous generation.

You'd think all these companies would have a single good naming convention, amazingly they don't. I suspect it's half on purpose so they can nerf the models without anyone suspecting once the hype dies down, since with every one of these models the latter version of the "same" version is worse than the launch version