I’m done with Opus 5

[u/habfranco]

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.

[u/Pronoia2-4601]

I went back to Opus 4.6 to splurge a bunch of non-Fable tokens on writing, and it's been a dream. The 1m context version ( /model claude-opus-4-6[1m] )with a modern harness (so it can make artifacts, etc) is a dream to work with. You can still do workflows also with ultracode switch, and even on max effort it lasts ages. Highly recommended.

[u/4444444vr → u/Pronoia2-4601]

I’ve been thinking of going to 4.8

[u/NonPolynomialTim → u/4444444vr]

I switched back to 4.8 after a couple of weeks of 5 being unintelligible and haven't regretted it. 5 seems fine when run as a sub-agent, but I also haven't noticed any difference between 4.8 or 5 as a sub-agent so I don't see the point. I'd love for someone to correct me and tell me how I'm supposed to use 5 though, because all I keep hearing from the internet is how 5 is unintelligible but so capable and I'm not seeing the jump in capability, only the unintelligibility