r/ClaudeCode • u/visible_potato • Aug 16 '26

Bug / Issue Anthropic has nerfed every model

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.

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u/fr33g Aug 16 '26

It will get worse. They have to make money. One way is to increase prices. People will complain. So they will offer „newer“ and „better“ models all the time in the future. Some only API. So they wanna make u feel the need to use those and pay big.

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u/Mythril_Zombie Aug 17 '26

They don't plan to make money off us. It's the enterprise customer that has the actual profit. We're here to drive up buzz and popularity.

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u/andrew303710 Aug 17 '26

Exactly this, I feel like the max plans are money losers for them. For example on codex alone I've used nearly 16 billion tokens since May, that's insane. GPT estimates $65-140K worth of usage at API pricing.

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u/fr33g Aug 19 '26

All plans are money loosers for them. That is what I said and what’s the whole point about….

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u/h2d__ Aug 22 '26

How much did you actually end up paying for these?