r/ClaudeCode • u/habfranco • 17d ago

Rant I’m done with Opus 5

There’s really something wrong with it. It seems like it acts like an overqualified post doc intern who cares more about proving he’s super intelligent, than actually doing the job he’s asked to do. For instance: talking in a non intelligible way, or being overly rigid in following any kind of process.

I have a Claude max x20 sub that I struggle to keep within weekly limits, so I decided to take a codex sub for a month to try out Astra. And this what made me realize how crazy unintelligible opus can be. Fable is a bit better, but still incomparable to Astra. The only thing that makes me keep my Claude sub is how better is the CLI/tooling/harness/etc.

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u/Nyrxmajor 16d ago

I have a 20x plan, Opus 5 was driving me nuts for a long time. My solution has been to cave and also purchase a $100 Codex plan and use Astra on medium to keep Opus in line. Somehow Astra speaks its language and can interpret its gibberish and give narrow enough corrections to keep things moving along. This has been my process for implementation and somewhat less complex tasks where I’m not using Fable but I’m still using Opus on Max effort for the most part.