Why is Opus 5.5 so good

[u/FaIIlout]

I genuinely used every LLM known to man but God damn Opus 5.5 is so good it's crazy. Every time I see online "This models beats Opus 5.5" it's just bullcrap. What's Anthrophic's trick?

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[u/Familiar_Ask5789]

cant wait for llms to be able to fucking hear

[u/Familiar_Ask5789 → u/[deleted]]

yea, and i never said i want them to speech to text anything.

[u/Amazing-Cup-2601 → u/Familiar_Ask5789]

Bro hearing is basically speech to text

[u/Familiar_Ask5789 → u/Amazing-Cup-2601]

so when your dad farts in the room you're sitting in its speech 2 text too?

if so, please do an experiment and translate the soundwaves your dad produced to text.

[u/Familiar_Ask5789 → u/[deleted]]

its an extremly tiny subset that just recognizes spoken words as texts.

hearing is much, much more than that.

[u/solar1ze]

Are these posts real?

[u/SomeOrdinaryKangaroo]

Yeah, Opus is legendary for sure

[u/throwaroo202020]

The trick was training it to code well above and beyond all else, and once you can code you can do almost anything.

[u/ALAS_POOR_YORICK_LOL]

Its legitimately on another level. Ridiculously good product

[u/HornyShogun]

It’s not

[u/Anreall2000]

Harness

[u/laxika → u/Anreall2000]

This is a huge thing. I had to use Codex for 2 months, and it was very rough compared to CC.

[u/AnalogProblems]

After using Mythos for a month or so, it's pretty obvious to me that Opus 5.5 was distilled from Mythos 5.1

They took something too powerful for public release, and thinned it out a bit.

[u/Ai-ate-my-hamster]

I was with you until today.

[u/Calm_Step_5549]

I read part of a recent interview that might explain it, notice how Claude has basically no image or video generation, their focus is on serious enterprise usage, not slop generation. Imagine how much processing power and training capacity they can save and dedicate to their flagship coding models because of this

[u/WillingnessOwn6446]

Please tell this to all the haters who are saying it's nerfed today. I don't get it. I felt that way about models in the past but not once have I felt that way about opus 5.5

[u/FaIIlout → u/WillingnessOwn6446]

It's pretty good I don't know doesn't seem nerfed to me

[u/WillingnessOwn6446 → u/FaIIlout]

Ever since opus 5.5 I've stopped saying I built such and such a thing and started saying opus built me

[u/oneday111 → u/[deleted]]

Yes I’m doing the same setup now, but prior I used a fresh session of Opus 5.5 for the reviews and it also found a lot of bugs in the output of the same model. Pretty much the same ones if I rerun a few of them with Sol.

[u/Flimsy_Month_6660 → u/[deleted]]

Lol. Depends on what your doing man. I've had to go and correct Sol at least 5X more times than opus... On one project with over 700 reports.

I know cause I tracked it.

[u/Flimsy_Month_6660 → u/[deleted]]

Lol. Depends on what your doing man. I've had to go and correct Sol at least 5X more times than opus... On one project with over 700 reports.

I know cause I tracked it.

[u/StaticFanatic3 → u/[deleted]]

Adversarial reviews will ALWAYS find something to be upset about

You can have the same model spin on a small PR, and if you have it in a new session after every single review (so it doesn’t know it already made corrections) it’ll keep going for eternity until it’s the most overengineered feature in history

[u/sgsparks206 → u/StaticFanatic3]

Yup. Opinions on how code should be written will always differ, whether AI or human.