Why is Anthropic genuinely so good?

Users are curious about Anthropic's Claude, especially Opus 5.5, noting its superior performance for real-world coding and technical tasks compared to models from Google, OpenAI, and Meta. Despite these companies having immense resources, Claude is praised for its ability to understand requests, work through codebases, and produce well-thought-out code. The discussion queries whether this is due to a technical advantage or effective post-training that aligns with developer preferences.

This discussion highlights Claude's perceived superiority in real-world coding tasks, unlike other models that often focus on benchmarks, suggesting a different approach to model development.