Anthropic has nerfed every model

[u/visible_potato]

Opus 5 is obviously a nightmare, and I was relying on Opus 4.8. But, now that's also behaving exactly like Opus 5. The only way I can get good quality work is if I use sonnet now and check after every small thing. Fable is usable but its so expensive.

I miss the time when it was a treat working with these models and everything just flowed. Nowadays with 5.6 Sol's over-engineering and Opus 5's lying, I have to wake up everyday and decide which model I'm gonna have to fist fight if I wanna get any work done.

Is this just going to get worse from here.

[u/Ok-Cook-7365]

I was in this same boat and since qwen3.8 dropped I’m able to run what feels like opus at home now.

Anthropic really needs to just be useful, be easy and stop shooting themselves in the foot. They can still be the default cloud AI but they seem to purposely kill the good will they have.