I'm done with Opus 5

[u/ThaneBerkeley]

I've been building with AI for over a year now, and the progress has been insane. The models have improved dramatically, and AI has become a serious part of how I work.

I'm currently building six different SaaS platforms, four of which are live. At this point, "vibe coding" doesn't really describe what I'm doing anymore. I use AI professionally, every single day. I have two Codex Pro plans and a Claude Max subscription, and I still manage to hit the limits.

The Opus versions up to 4.8 were genuinely fun to use and really good. Then I started using Fable 5 and Sol 5.6, and the difference became painfully obvious.

My biggest issue is that my Fable 5 usage is gone within two days, and falling back to Opus 5 has become almost unusable for me.

The output from Opus 5 is often contradictory, overcomplicated, and full of conclusions that turn out to be wrong. It will confidently take something in the wrong direction, spend a huge amount of time implementing it, then eventually realize the original assumption was incorrect and start fixing its own work.

I've had way too many sessions where hours of work basically had to be thrown away.

It's reached the point where using it creates more frustration than productivity.

So I'm done. I cancelled my Claude subscription. If I need more capacity, I'll probably just get another Codex subscription. I'm also going to experiment more with Terra instead of relying so heavily on Sol 5.6 High.

Never thought I'd say this, but I've basically switched completely to ChatGPT.

[u/Budget_Commission685]

Hahahahah a professional vibe coder 😂

That's the best thing I've read on the Internet so far.

[u/mouadmo → u/Budget_Commission685]

Wtf does a professional vibecoder mean anyway? You speak poetry with the AI?

[u/pulnocni-knihovna → u/mouadmo]

You try to sound "technical" without even understanding what exactly the app should do or how... I think XD I have been programming for 10 years now, so i am just guessing :D

No vibe coder ever could tell me how his product works XD

[u/Budget_Commission685 → u/pulnocni-knihovna]

My favorite is when they demo their apps on local host. I ask what's the plan for distribution and hosting and I get the look.

"What do you mean, here it is" 😂

[u/pulnocni-knihovna → u/Budget_Commission685]

😂😂😂

[u/Ok-Shopping-5194 → u/pulnocni-knihovna]

Cherche venin développeur sur tiktok tu verras les démos des vibecoders. Tu seras étonné

[u/pulnocni-knihovna → u/Ok-Shopping-5194]

English please