Anthropic has released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, receiving positive feedback for its coding capabilities and user engagement.Users, including Mckay Wrigley and Deedy Das, praised Claude 3.7 Sonnet for its coding prowess and efficiency.Ethan Mollick acknowledged Claude 3.7 Sonnet's superiority in a challenge and praised its interactive capabilities.The model outperformed competitors in benchmarks and tasks like creating visually pleasing images and interactive websites.OpenAI acknowledged Anthropic's superiority in code-based tasks, with Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforming other models like GPT-4o.However, Claude 3.7 Sonnet is criticized for its high cost compared to models like OpenAI's o3 Mini.Jeremy Chone highlighted Sonnet 3.7's struggles with instructions and deviation from recommended coding practices.Despite being expensive, Sonnet 3.7 is integrated into popular AI coding tools like Replit Agent and GitHub Copilot.Anthropic's launch of 'agentic' coding tool Claude Code poses a challenge to existing tools, offering increased efficiency.Claude Code, currently in research preview, streamlines coding tasks to reduce manual work, setting a new standard in coding tools.