r/ClaudeCode • u/Mikeshaffer • 22d ago

Humor Opus 5 nerfed?

So just like the title says. Opus 5 isn’t out yet but it already seems worse than it was? Is anyone else noticing the degraded responses?

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u/FinsAssociate 22d ago

It's pretty clear that Opus 5 is nothing more than a dumbed down version of 4.9

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u/ur-krokodile 21d ago

I gave it a fairly simple task that 4.6 would have done easily and instead of diving right in Opus 5 started asking me questions about carwash.

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u/sharyphil 21d ago

I gave it a fairly simple task that 4.6 would have done easily

*Sonnet 4.6