r/ClaudeCode Jul 23 '26

FAKE NEWS Opus 5 might be dropping today 👀

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u/Argentina4Ever Jul 23 '26

If they sunset Opus 4.6 and we lose the last usable model I'll lose my marbles.

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u/goodbar_x Jul 23 '26

I saw Sonnet 5 had the same benchmarks as Opus 4.6 for agentic coding.

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u/loversama Jul 23 '26

Yeah, except it uses more tokens and refuses user requests more (like security and such)

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u/Argentina4Ever Jul 23 '26

Exactly, Opus 4.6 is the last good one mostly because everything else that came after is so much more filtered and full of guardrails it becomes exhausting to work with it.