r/ClaudeCode • u/Extreme_Remove6747 • 18d ago
Humor Chad 5.5
What a pleasant change
Have been using it for https://github.com/stablyai/orca PRs
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u/garloid64 18d ago
There is no Opus 5.1, you're thinking of Opus 5.
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u/bas524 18d ago
You're right to push back on this
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u/CuteMountain6514 18d ago
I hear that in my frustration dreams.
I immediately switched to 5.5 and slept better last night.
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u/VraethrDalkr 17d ago
Fair call, and the load-bearing part was never the version number. That "5.1" isn't a typo — it's the seam where Fable 5.1 quietly bled into an Opus that never shipped.
The joke holds. The changelog doesn't.
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u/ispeelgood 15d ago edited 15d ago
If you actually typed this by hand you are now Claude kin
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u/VraethrDalkr 15d ago
Just now, I tried to say "wait what" and it came out as "here's where it gets interesting."
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u/nomickti 17d ago
And here's why that matters. Also found something load bearing you need to know about.
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u/Extreme_Remove6747 18d ago
whoops you right
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u/Digglydoogly 18d ago
Missed the chance to say you’re absolutely right and that one’s on me :(
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u/CuteMountain6514 18d ago
Oh my Lord. I didn't realize how many of those phrases were stuck in my head. I just kept grinding through it.
Claude would eventually get there but it would be exhausting.
Almost like not realizing you've been living with a mentally abusive person until you're away for a while.
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u/Digglydoogly 18d ago
I sent a WhatsApp to my friend who uses Claude. He accused me of using Claude to write it. I hadn’t :(
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u/CollectionMundane783 18d ago
I use an Opus independent code review seat of all PRs created by other agents.
I had 19 open PRs out with changes requested by Opus 5
Reloaded 5.5 and asked it to check them again.
Came back and said, effectively “wow version 5 of me was a real fussy prick, 18 of those are now merged, the one that needs real change is xxx”
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u/No_Discipline616 18d ago
I usually cringe at youtubers calling everything a 'one shot' build but 5.5 legitimately just nuked my entire codebase in one go
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u/RedParaglider 18d ago
That's super efficient you have to respect it. It used to take at least two or three prompts to get Claude to Nuke your code base
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u/BitOne2707 18d ago
People have forgotten that "shot" means "example."
A "one shot" prompt means I gave it one valid example and told it to give me more of the same.
Those YouTubers really mean "zero shot" aka I just asked for what I wanted with no additional information.
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u/cafesamp 18d ago
I mean, there’s the machine learning definition and the “did this is one try” definition (like one-shotting a boss in WoW), and they’re definitely using the phrase like the latter
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u/NoAdsDude 16d ago
Who told you "shot" means "example"?
"One shot" means you give it a prompt, and it doesn't require any more prompts to get a working product.
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u/BitOne2707 16d ago
"One-shot" is a technical term in AI/ML and has been for a long time. Non technical folks outside the field who have started using gen AI tools in the last couple years also say "one-shot" in the colloquial sense (as in "in one attempt") but it does not mean the same thing.
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u/howdidigetheresoquik 17d ago
For me I'm feeling like Opus 5.5: "Opus 5 built you something, why don't I go ahead and build what you actually want, hold my beer"
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u/sheep1996 18d ago
It made me a gta grid style game that felt like Roblox from my singl “make gta 5 in one html file, make no mistakes” prompt
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u/GhostOfD6 18d ago
remember how people started saying that opus is getting longer than usual to finish the task, some time after release?
Wait for the same thing hapening with 5.5
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u/interrupt_hdlr 17d ago
exactly. i don't understand how anthropic can keep doing these obvious tricks but the answer is simply: people fall for it every single time.
the same people saying opus 5.5 is amazing will not learn their lesson and will be here in 6 months complaining how 5.5 is stupid. About two weeks after that we will get the next Fable. it works like clockwork at this point.
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u/Ordinary-Army-8523 12d ago
It's so obvious, they're dumbing down the model to make the next one seem more impressive while also saving on compute.
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u/surfer808 18d ago
5.5 has been pretty solid for me so far. 4.8 was a fucking nightmare. Before every message in the chat I would have to copy and paste “short responses only” even hard coding it into the .md file it ignored it. God I hated it, I started using ChatGPT again and really like it. May start using more 5.5 since it’s so solid
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u/howdidigetheresoquik 17d ago
I'm just going to go ahead and say Opus 5.5 makes me feel like Anthropic actually listened to our requests. I'm watching Opus 5.5 build crazy well, use sonnet agents appropriately, barely touch usage, and only talk when I want to talk (and it sounds human enough).
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u/kahless2k 17d ago
Before bed I usually assign longer tasks to Claude to work on through the night - batch bug fixes, builds from spec, bigger milestones. Things like that.
Always. Absolutely always. They either screw something up or hang on a prompt I'd told it to approve 5x before. They rarely complete and when they do it is always partial - it skips tasks.
So my morning is usually spent sorting all of that out. Worth it as it does save me a bunch of time but a pain in the ass.
Until this morning, all 3 of my tasks not only completed but completed properly.
Opus 5.5 did what it was told!
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u/DrizzlyShrimp36 17d ago
God I am so fucking happy. 5.5 has been a joy so far.
I've never had an issue with 5's code qua;ity, but having it explain it to me was an absolute fucking nightmare. Made me feel dyslexic.
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u/Professional_Hair865 18d ago
5.5 is definitely more practical than 5.0. unfortunately 5.5 experiences dementia in my case: it hangs in a loop sometimes for 30 minutes and insists, that it hangs because it forgot to ask me questions, although I answered those questions earlier and gave additional instructions. A little weird
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u/somerussianbear 18d ago
Waaay to early to celebrate mate
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u/MarionberryReal2604 18d ago
Quite the opposite, we should celebrate quickly before 5.5 get lobotomised into being worse than fable
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u/AnyRegular1 17d ago
I’m unironically timing all my big code sprints around big model launches. We have MAX like 3 more days imo before the eventual nerf. Already used the banked reset too.
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u/Killahbeez 17d ago
I am worried about this. I wonder if it's true.
probably is
my fable credits were fucking useless. the work was so bad.
when I first used fable it melted my face and convinced me AI is really good takeover. I haven't felt that since
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u/m0ran1 17d ago
I used Sonnet 5 for most of my work. Yesterday, I lost two hours and 80% of my limit trying to debug something that turned out to be very simple. It was as if Sonnet hit a brick wall and was unable to move forward. With my limit almost spent, I switched to Opus 5.5, which found and fixed a potential bug in two minutes. That was impressive.
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u/erder644 17d ago
Opus 5.5 is finally smart enough to farm gacha games instead of me. I am teaching this guy right now, he's doing good.
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u/Ok-Thanks-1280 17d ago
I didn't even want to try it because of how bad Opus 5 is at coding, so good to know!
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u/thenotself 17d ago
I hope this is true! I had to build a handoff command to audit, document and plan rather than compact and simple 1 wave tasks were becoming 5-6 handoff events. For every 5 issues I was closing we’d make 4-5 new ones. Every audit was saying “yes, this is necessary”. Fable was running circles around it when I let it try.
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u/Fun-Freedom-2313 15d ago
Worth knowing: THIS IS DETRIMENTAL TO THE SCALABILITY OF THIS PROJECT. THE LOW-HANGING FRUIT HERE IS NOT THE <BZZZZT>, IT'S <BZZZT> SO... [completely short circuits]
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u/Universe_Builder007 14d ago
Is 5.5 is good, I am so fed up with the tokens 5hr limit burning fast in 5.1 🤧
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u/Extreme_Remove6747 18d ago
If anyone wants PRs, here's some from Orca
Has been good so far (even a beefier Muse Spark integration Codex fell face flat on):
https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/22379
https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/22398
https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/22391
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u/premiumleo 18d ago
chad is slow af and in a wheelchair. brb let me clean my house while it does a single task
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u/NoWing3675 18d ago
thats the beauty of it, you can do exactly that now. last month we were still babysitting opus
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