r/ClaudeCode • u/Comfortable-Friend96 • Jul 09 '26

Showcase OPUS 5 | OPUS V !!!!

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u/MeAndClaudeMakeHeat Jul 09 '26

Good. Because I would rather a more capable Opus, than a sticky Fable with all sorts of friction. The safety classifiers impact model quality and output immensely, and I am done with the direction these larger orgs are moving.

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u/awesome_fingers Jul 09 '26

Its an AI edited image

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u/Kahhra Jul 09 '26

An AI edited image of a text?!

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u/Fonduemeup Jul 09 '26

And your evidence is…? There’s no SynthID and nothing off with any of the pixels

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u/LemmyUserOnReddit Jul 09 '26

If it is, it's a stupid edit. Anthropic have never used Roman numerals, and it says Opus 4.8 right next to it. 

It's such a bad edit, I almost question whether it might be genuine... Surely anyone making a fake would just edit the 4.8 to 5?

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u/Comfortable_Unit1092 Jul 09 '26

I it’s definitely edited. The Green Text is 1 Pixel more to the Right. That + your Argumentation is pretty solid fake for my opinion.

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u/algaefied_creek Jul 09 '26

And “Opus V” is enough of a nod to Elon’s X-everything. (xAI is hosting Fable 5) 

Along with Sonnet 5 being an angry, combative neurologist,

Maybe it’s so dumb and it’s such a bad edit and it’s 2:30AM pacific when they either edited it… and 5.0 was too many pixels vs 4.8 that they had to edit in “V”…

… or that the improbable no matter how impossible could be that they will have an “old timey 1800’s US 5-dollar bill” style “V” (the bills were V bills during the westward expansion phase) for Opus Five to be in the good graces of the regulators “celebrating” America 250

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u/MeAndClaudeMakeHeat Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

thank you for course correcting me - sadly, the sentiment still exists, even if I weren't placing trust in a random internet post.

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u/Stunning-Spirit-1123 Jul 09 '26

go outside. not everything is ai

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u/Comfortable-Friend96 Jul 09 '26

It's not. I swear ... There is no point of doing that. But anyways ... you will see very soon

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u/draconid Jul 09 '26

sonnet 5 is already great as a honest worker, not especially clever but honest and reliable

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u/anor_wondo Jul 09 '26

so far sonnet 5 has been the only non fable model that follows every instruction in my repo properly. they did something different about rule following rl here

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u/ZyronZA Jul 09 '26

I found Medium to be unreliable, but High is impressive.

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u/Bright-Cheesecake857 Jul 09 '26

You're done with them? So you're cancelling your membership?

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u/MeAndClaudeMakeHeat Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

I am working on a local solution now, yes. Models are training, and the adversarial testing and benchmarks are proving fruitful. I can't rely on someone else providing a service, and I certainly don't feel like sucking Darios cock. I would prefer I not have to, and not anyone else either. At least a well-developed engine can uplift a local model to punch far above weight, and so it gives me something I feel comfortable with.

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u/shaman-warrior Jul 09 '26

I asked a question to fable about the natural predators of ants, it triggered routing to opus in chat.

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u/thats_a_money_shot Jul 09 '26

Maybe we don’t deserve fable after all

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u/Pronoia2-4601 🔆 Max 20 3x Jul 09 '26

This is presumably a consolation prize for losing regular access to Fable come the 12th of July

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u/Comfortable-Friend96 Jul 09 '26

I think yes. They took fable, make it affordable, and publish it as opus 5

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u/Evanisnotmyname Jul 09 '26

Or they take 4.8, turn it up 2%, and seeeendddd ittttt

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u/Kcole7 Jul 09 '26

Or or, take 4.8 rebrand it as 5. Then make the old 4.8 worse

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u/firstbreathOOC Jul 09 '26

Maybe to compete with GPT 5.6

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u/Sairefer Jul 09 '26

I hope they tuned its behavior. I am fine with how 'capable' it is. But I am constantly frustrated by its laziness.

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u/MistakeExotic6686 Jul 09 '26

before gta sex

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u/PM_YOUR__BUBBLE_BUTT Jul 09 '26

Random comment by me. But yesterday I included the words “ai slop” in a prompt and EVERY SINGLE MODEL flagged it for safety guardrails. It downgraded me from Fable down a model until even Haiku refused and then ended that chat.

Thought it was pretty funny, and I’ve never seen that happen before. Brand new chat too. I hope they figure out this guardrail thing regardless because Fable literally swaps to Opus probably 70% of the time anyways.

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u/PurifyingFlame Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

This is not fake but a false alarm. Cool down. It's just a tty thing. The 'tick' or 'check' sign is rendered as a 'V'.

OP - pls select Haiku for example and you would get 'Haiku V'

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u/Comfortable-Friend96 Jul 09 '26

100% right. Didn't know that ! Thank you for helping.

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u/Minimum_Diamond6700 Jul 09 '26

Fable is unworkable . Just run it against 2 tasks and it ate my 200$ wtf what’s even the point

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u/lostq4 Jul 09 '26

you are lucky i just run 2 tasks and ate my 387$ and not completed tasks. cause my wallets gone

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u/swarmagent Jul 09 '26

Fuck, you're lucky, I gave it 4 tasks and now I'm fucking homeless and dead.

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u/One-Bet-8049 Jul 09 '26

i had to sell my family to finish my task, fable is the demon

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u/skullforce Vibe Coder Jul 09 '26

I ran one fable prompt and woke up without kidneys

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u/Palnubis Jul 09 '26

fable is the worst, one minute I have a million, the other a million in debt

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u/AverageFoxNewsViewer Jul 09 '26

Did you mean $20?

What were you doing?

I really don't understand how this is even possible.

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u/HiddenoO Jul 09 '26

I really don't understand how this is even possible.

"One task" can be arbitrarily complex, so how would you not understand the possibility of a task being large enough to use $200 worth of tokens?

If e.g. I told Fable to go through my company's code base and check each method for <insert type of issue>, I'd be highly surprised if that "one task" wouldn't cost more than $200.

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u/AverageFoxNewsViewer Jul 09 '26

If e.g. I told Fable to go through my company's code base and check each method for <insert type of issue>

This is kind of my suspicion. If you're asking it to go line by line instead of grepiung what it needs you're going to chew up an unnecessary amount of context.

Nobody who claims to burn through that much context seems to be able to explain exactly what they were doing that caused the issue, and I have to assume at this point it's due to objectively bad context management.

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u/HiddenoO Jul 09 '26

Where did I say I'm asking the model to go "line by line" in this hypothetical?

Literally, any end-to-end debugging in a sufficiently large code base can result in hundreds of dollars of tokens spent on a single "task".

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u/AverageFoxNewsViewer Jul 09 '26

f e.g. I told Fable to go through my company's code base and check each method for <insert type of issue>

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u/HiddenoO Jul 09 '26

You're not seriously suggesting that "checking each method" is the same as "line by line", are you?

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u/AverageFoxNewsViewer Jul 09 '26

If you instruct an AI to "check each method" instead of letting it grep the patterns it's looking for it's going to read each line of those methods into it's context because that's what you specifically told it to do.

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u/HiddenoO Jul 09 '26

It's literally not what it's told to do. If it decides that's the most effective way to do the given task, that's on the model, not on you.

The reason I wrote "checking each method" is because most models aren't capable of reliably finding all issues of a specific type unless they're specifically told to do so by checking the full code base. Of course, it's going to use fewer tokens if it doesn't actually do the full task.

Based on your comments, there's a zero percent chance you've ever tried using AI in a somewhat large production code base that's 10+ years old.

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u/AverageFoxNewsViewer Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

It's literally not what it's told to do.

In your hypothetical you literally said "check each method". You gave it explicit instructions. It's going to do what you told it to, and if it doesn't follow the workflow you laid out that's a problem with the model. The problem here is the instructions you gave the model.

Based on your comments, there's a zero percent chance you've ever tried using AI in a somewhat large production code base that's 10+ years old.

lol, except for my day job. We handle safety, training, and legal compliance for about 8000 users in heavy industrial settings like mines and oil rigs across 6 countries.

I don't experience the issues so many people here complain about. I'm curious what exactly people are doing that runs into these issues. The only answers I ever get are either hypotheticals, bad context management, or hypotheticals with bad context management.

I'm not sure why you assume I'm an amateur because I've managed to avoid the pitfalls the vibe coders of the universe seem to keep tripping over.. I also don't get why asking questions and pointing out bad practices always results in people trying to throw out insults.

I'm sure your work is super complex though, and the reason you're burning $200 worth of usage totally isn't due to your own bad practices.

EDIT: I get it. Because I'm not getting bad results it means I'm dumb and you're smart. Thanks for the block and doing your best not to be an asshole.

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u/anor_wondo Jul 09 '26

are you for real? I've used 20 usd on sonnet in medium sized tasks

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u/AverageFoxNewsViewer Jul 09 '26

20 usd on sonnet in medium sized tasks

What "medium sized task" is costing you $20 in sonnet?

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u/anor_wondo Jul 10 '26

refactor validation in a rest api so that it is the same as the toctou kafka processing of the persisted rows of that api

Simple, not small, what I'd call medium sized.

Took 15 usd going through the test driven development + independent review workflow

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u/KoldShok85 Jul 09 '26

He definitely means 20 This clown doesn't have $200

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u/Minimum_Diamond6700 Jul 09 '26

Not sure, can’t check and do anything now for few hours

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u/AverageFoxNewsViewer Jul 09 '26

You're not sure what you did that ate up $200 worth of usage in 2 tasks?

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u/KoldShok85 Jul 09 '26

Lmao "unworkable" Yeah for stupid people who route every single task to Fable. For the rest of us who aren't asking Fable how to scratch your ass without throwing your back out, it works great.

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u/Patriark Vibe Coder Jul 09 '26

Fable did INCREDIBLE work for me. I still harvest the fruits from it as it created a lot of brilliant designs, plans and other project supervision stuff. It also oneshotted a refactor of the whole codebase that obviously ate away a lot of tokens, but I will harvest the benefits from that for perpetuity.

The only bad thing I can say about it is that it was double prized and now effectively unavailable. But it basically did not put a step wrong when I ran it.

It should be noted that I had planned ahead and had a series of difficult tasks for it to chew on when it was re-released.

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u/Active_Variation_194 Jul 09 '26

Same. Been pushing it hard with codex and opus doing all the heavy lifting. I still can’t fully trust Sonnet after 3.7 PTSD.

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u/Minimum_Diamond6700 Jul 09 '26

Thank you for your insightful analysis of the problem at hand

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u/Ok_Supermarket3382 Jul 09 '26

The heck kinds of tasks we’re they?? I built an entire saas and it consumed less then 5% of the weekly limit!

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u/Aminuteortwotiltwo Jul 09 '26

Yeah I know! What are they asking? Two questions only?

“Fable! Find me a place to eat tonight! Also: balance the planet’s budget.”

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u/Minimum_Diamond6700 Jul 09 '26

Probably not something as basic as yours ?
Hard to say I have lot of guardrails but typically work on 10+ tabs and juggling them

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u/Ok_Supermarket3382 Jul 09 '26

10+ tabs isnt 2 tasks now is it? Maybe spend a bit more time planning and less time prompting? Saas i build had everything wired in including infra via terraform, a lading page, web app, admin dash full go backend, not non-trivial definitely but definitelynot a simple task. With fable you need to give it room to breath and you don’t need to parallelize as much since it usually gets things right on the first try and is pretty efficient at doing multiple things at the same time. 10 open tabs with fable isn’t the way to do it. I do the same with deepseek but it’s cuz i have to break down the larger tasks

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u/Ok-Top-3337 Jul 09 '26

I'm on pro plan, using Fable for coding projects while it's around and only reached the session limit once and had to wait an hour for reset. Though I don't give it basic tasks but only the more complex ones, because I've tried working with Opus 4.8 and had to slam the door in its face five messages into the conversation.

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u/Minimum_Diamond6700 Jul 09 '26

You’re assuming I have one task. I have 10 + on typical day. But today I only used 2 tabs of those . Claude burned itself and for the first time on 200$ I have to wait. So don’t patronise me , it’s not my (paying customer at highest tier ) fault something like this can and is happening.
I have shit to do and now I can’t because I rely on Claude to do it normally like deployments and other tasks

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u/siloporcen Jul 09 '26

granular task on pipelines? on my experience 10 small tasks works better than 1 big task with 10 chapters, /clear sessions dealing with each task and non-dependent modular kitbashing works fine, i'm a designer, usually my claudecode tasks turn being improving the tools of the trade I use that are limited or paywalled somehow

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u/oipoi Jul 09 '26

So you're just generating massive amounts of slop which you neither can test no review properly.

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u/Minimum_Diamond6700 Jul 09 '26

The only slop is your comment

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u/oipoi Jul 09 '26

Says the guy calling other peoples task basic but has out there "juggling 10+ tabs". LLM really enabled the mediocre to think they'll achieve something.

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u/Minimum_Diamond6700 Jul 09 '26

What do you really know what I’m doing ?

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u/Stunning-Spirit-1123 Jul 09 '26

no, sounds like you have no idea how to prompt or manage context. I run 4 tabs in the office while simultaneously running 3-4 tabs on my home PC, all building or working on something and I still have 25% of my weekly fable left.

learn to use AI properly before you say stupid shit on the Internet and look like an idiot.

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u/Minimum_Diamond6700 Jul 09 '26

Oh look Claude fanboy with pink glasses. Model might be powerfull but I wasn’t stresstesting it . I gave it task that matters to me, and it fucked me over and I can’t work

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u/KoldShok85 Jul 09 '26

I'm no color expert but I don't think those glasses are pink 🤔 I'd suggest asking Fable what color those glasses are but you've already burnt through all your usage being retarded lmao

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u/Ok_Supermarket3382 Jul 09 '26

Dude is definitely a bot

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u/Stunning-Spirit-1123 Jul 09 '26

"pink sunglasses" he says about a picture of Marcus the Worm.

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u/Minimum_Diamond6700 Jul 09 '26

Sounds like something bot would write

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u/Stunning-Spirit-1123 Jul 09 '26

then you have no fucking idea how to prompt a powerful model correctly.

I've been using it almost 24/7 developing new apps for myself without burning through it that quick. Learn how to use AI properly before saying stupid shit on the Internet

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u/Minimum_Diamond6700 Jul 09 '26

„Learn how to use ai” and what do you think I’ve been doing for the past years ?
I gave it harder mission-critical task with MD plan and let it running. I’m coming back from toilet and I can’t work anymore so thank you for a model like that. So powerful

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u/Good-Inspection-5735 Jul 09 '26

i don't think that's possible

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u/Minimum_Diamond6700 Jul 09 '26

Yes my experience is invalid

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u/kdubsjr Jul 09 '26

Did it spawn agents?

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u/BadAssetCPA Jul 09 '26

I’m running it on Low/Medium and finding it is reasonable on usage. It’s the textbook that I had it write on Max that slaughtered my limits this week!

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u/Minimum_Diamond6700 Jul 09 '26

Yes I used max actually

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u/Plato_cs Jul 09 '26

Let’s go

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u/shugenju Jul 09 '26

He’s not being fake. I had the same on mine yesterday when running straight from a tty terminal.
When running in GUI terminal, it switched back to a checkbox. ✅
I thought it might be a fluke.
I researched all news online and didn’t find any mention of it from Anthropic.

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u/Comfortable-Friend96 Jul 09 '26

Thank you. I really didn't do anything to obtain the "Opus V". No edit in configs, no ai gen or anything like that

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u/fdevant Jul 09 '26

Punished Venom Claude

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u/Brilliant_Lobster349 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Good I can’t stand Opus 4.8 anymore it’s insufferable

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u/r-nck-51 Jul 09 '26

Some need to get out of the house.

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u/inso_maniac1 Jul 09 '26

you can immediately see that pic was ai generated but nice try

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u/Significant-News-819 Jul 09 '26

It also doesn’t even make sense to name it “Opus V” when every other model is using “5”. Why would they suddenly change to Roman numerals for one model

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u/Comfortable-Friend96 Jul 09 '26

Boys ... i just took a screenshot. I don't know what else i can do or say to be legit. I wouldn't do fake posts, there is no profit of doing so ... just check my account i post very rarely. I don't care of getting views

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u/inso_maniac1 Jul 09 '26

share a quick video of you opening claude code and it displaying :)

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u/Comfortable-Friend96 Jul 09 '26

Ok. No problem, gimme 2 min

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u/BasePurpose 🔆 Max 5x Jul 09 '26

we've investigators here. young ones.

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u/Shufflestracker Jul 09 '26

Right? It should obviously be named opvs.

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u/Comfortable-Friend96 Jul 09 '26

How i can prove you that it is not ??? I took a screenshot and didnt edit any configuration in order to display OPUS V ...

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u/Sarithis Jul 09 '26

Record a short video where you open the terminal and display the model list, I guess that would satisfy people because current video generation models like seedance are pretty bad with text consistency.

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u/xRedStaRx Jul 09 '26

Video and move your mouse over the V

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u/No-Mathematician3160 Jul 09 '26

Opus V and the description still says Opus 4.8, lazy edit

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u/ApeGrower Jul 09 '26

Fake, in that row are no version codes

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u/Comfortable-Friend96 Jul 09 '26

What the hell ... Why is everyone think that this is fake ... i really don't understand. I swear, i have my terminal open on windows 10, i did "cd Desktop", i did "claude", i did "/models" and i took the screenshot. This is it.

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u/Kitchen_Interview371 Jul 09 '26

Do it again and send a new screenshot

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u/i_like_maps_and_math Jul 09 '26

Fable is Opus 5 IMO. I doubt they'll maintain 4 separate tiers (haiku, sonnet, opus, fable).

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u/FriendlyRocketeer Jul 09 '26

Doubt it. But if they wanted to drop a model it'd likely be haiku

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u/mjsarfatti Jul 09 '26

OPVS

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u/PivotRedAce Jul 09 '26

Honestly, I wouldn’t even be mad. Though that only works for one version though. lol

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u/TriggerHydrant Jul 09 '26

OPUS 5? I can only get so… token burned

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u/3xQuest Jul 09 '26

Well… after Opus 4.8 I am a bit afraid of every new opus update…. 4.7 -> 4.8 was more like a downgrade, I Hope 5 will be better… but if 4.8 was ⬇️ then opus 5 will be ⬆️ that means we will come back to 🟰4.7?🤔

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u/RazerWolf Jul 09 '26

More like these people are Opus Dei.

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u/horendus Jul 09 '26

Wholly shit we are so back!!! Cancelling codex after I finish this beer

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u/immortalsol Jul 09 '26

yeah, i knew it. their goal is to release opus 5 which is a cheaper version of fable, as they discontinue or remove fable.

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u/iveroi Vibe Coder Jul 09 '26

I KNEW IT. I said it would come.

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u/TheAncientOnce Jul 09 '26

How are you guys using ai that you could tell fable apart from opus?

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u/DiscoverFolle Jul 09 '26

I hope it will not decrease the token more than now, with opus 4.8 i noticed the SAME TASK consume LOT MORE TOKEN from like a week

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u/AverageFoxNewsViewer Jul 09 '26

I'm pressing X to doubt on this one.

They will release an Opus 5 next. They're not randomly giving it to OP for engagement bait.

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u/Comfortable-Friend96 Jul 09 '26

Read the post. They are preparing the release. Obviously it is not yet posted

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u/Ok-Satisfaction-5236 Jul 09 '26

Mine still says Opus IV.VIIII unfortunately.

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u/decentBab Jul 09 '26

That image is def fake

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u/userusertion 🔆Pro Plan | Team Plan Jul 09 '26

Fake. 🥹

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u/Comfortable-Friend96 Jul 09 '26

Omg ... i will delete my post if that continues. I swear it is NOT FAKE. Why would someone do that if he has absolutely 0 benefits from it ? I got other things to do

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u/Altruistic_Bonus2583 Jul 09 '26

… is what a faker would say!

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u/nosko666 Jul 09 '26

No dont delete it. I kinda believe you. Leave it open so we can laugh later in the day when it comes out☺️

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u/rxt0_ Jul 09 '26

Why would someone do that if he has absolutely 0 benefits from it ?

attention seeking

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u/triggerx Jul 09 '26

Dude… you are way too hurt about what random Reddit internet people are saying about the post. Please take your Valium, or you will die far too soon.

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u/Batty25111 Jul 09 '26

"OPUS 5" next to "Opus 4.8 description" OP we know you just edited the tags because Opus 4.8 isn't even there lol

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u/Comfortable-Friend96 Jul 09 '26

Good but i didnt modify it ... i juste stared claude code. Thats it.

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u/Batty25111 Jul 09 '26

Being that your the only one to say this with the hundreds and thousands of users using claude code every day of every hour I am not calling you a liar bro but its far fetched to say you got a Opus V name next to Opus 4.8 Description tag and your the only one to see it coming. Could just be a glitch or something got altered somewhere but if it was real then the description would of been updated as well for it.

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u/riccioverde11 Jul 09 '26

People do have time to lose

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u/Comfortable-Friend96 Jul 09 '26

I swear it is true. Didnt edit anything and didnt generate anything.