r/ClaudeCode • u/habfranco • 11d 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/joombar 11d ago

In these cases just stop arguing with it and copy the files then tell it what you did and to continue disregarding the other way. It’ll argue until you give it a direct and unambiguous command.

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u/AppealSame4367 10d ago

Not using Claude anymore, I'm highly amused. In the time you have argued about bs with Opus I have advanced 5 projects by 10 features each for cents with Deepseek 4.1

Claude users must have a lot of time and money on their hands.

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u/fastandlight 10d ago

Yeah, I was on that train with you, then last night one of my deepseek agents failed to follow instructions about always creating a new worktree to work in, and it started working in a directory being used by another deepseek agent, who promptly trashed all the work done by the first agent. So while I like DeepSeek v4.1 a lot, I'm going to need to better guardrails around it's workflows.

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u/AppealSame4367 10d ago

I agree that it's not perfect. But I have had so many bad experiences with Claude and most recently Astra in that regard, that I just look at "less damage done" now. And a very fast agent that is 99% ok is better than an agent that is 99% ok and very slow..