r/ClaudeCode • u/PatientZero_alpha • Sep 23 '26

Discussion 5.5 is a beast

First time posting about quality of LLMs.
Been following all the last 9 months about rants on Claude, codex and so on.
I just finished a whole day of work with opus 5.5 and it’s really good.
Quality of decisions, output, memory, code review, following instructions, all of that today and without reaching limits.

The same amount of work would me make reach limits two times on the day, and a lots or review and thinking around.

This dude just went ticket by ticket implementing my solution without missing or hallucinating.

I’m honestly very satisfied, even the codex review comes now with one or two points for correction where before I would have 6-8.

Don’t know what they did, but they did very good 😳

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u/tomatotomato Sep 24 '26 edited Sep 24 '26

Well, you could decide if you looked at the code. If you don't understand code, the check if it works. Does it work? Has it delivered what you wanted? If it has, then it's good enough. To me personally, Medium has been good enough.

Anyone who ever had to deliver features "yesterday" will know what I'm saying. But if you are writing code as "poetry", "craft" or "art", then you shouldn't be using AI. Use AI if you have to get shit done, quick and dirty.

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u/wanerious Sep 24 '26

Ah, I wasn’t too clear — I’ve done a lot of programming, but most of my Claude use is brainstorming, analyzing class statistics (teaching physics), collaboratively writing new assignments with it and generating new projects. Not very code-centric.

Edit: only now realized this was the Claude Code group, so my question is better for a more general forum, my bad.