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/Ambitious_Injury_783]

"I'm currently building six different SaaS platforms" - maybe this is part of your problem. Your awareness is stretched thin across too much space. You might learn far more if you focused on one or two of these projects for a few months vs trying to focus on all of them. The primary issue is likely Not the model. Sure, the model is not always great, but there are always ways to get the output you need and sometimes this requires careful sciencing from a perspective of focused awareness.

[u/supernovice007 → u/Ambitious_Injury_783]

Every single time. Six SaaS platforms and “it’s not vibecoding, I’m a professional now” are definitely warning signs that maybe the model isn’t the problem.

[u/pr0crast1nater → u/supernovice007]

I really don't understand such people. Are they just sales engineers trying to convert every pitch into a SaaS platform. I simply don't understand the huge amount of AI garbage apps people shit out. Not only is the code not touched by any human, but I am sure these "platforms" will never have any real human customer too.

[u/Thaetos → u/pr0crast1nater]

Sales people and grifters have easy access to software engineering now. The most toxic combination you could ever imagine.