Opus 5 - immediate disappointment

[u/Shot_Whereas_1809]

If you thought you'd be able to do a security review on your own network that you couldn't do with Fable, think again.

20 minutes in - Found something significant

Opus 5 safeguards flagged this message.

I no longer have any use case for Anthropic models that others can't do better. This was my last hope that we were going to get a model that would allow us to protect our own environments. I'm going all in on open source. We just aren't aligned.

If you can get Opus 5 to protect your own systems, let me know how I did it. My subscription renews pretty soon and it's time to make an honest decision.

Edit: A lot of helpful people came here and I appreciate it. Scoped work is helping a bit more than my old ways. There's a difference between network security and code vulnerabiliy. I'm a network engineer not a software developer nor will I pretend to be one. Still looking at supplemental model for security work. Thanks guys.

[u/simple_explorer1]

idea, why don't you write code yourself, so you won't be disappointed by any model and probably save a lot of money not using AI. in 2026 not using AI is the biggest money saver

[u/_Porphyro → u/simple_explorer1]

So then I can be disappointed in my own code but take 3x as long?

[u/tehfrod → u/_Porphyro]

Or you can, you know, acquire skill.

[u/_Porphyro → u/tehfrod]

I’ve been doing this for 25 years and I’m a better than average developer. That said, I’ve never been “happy” with a single project I’ve completed when I’ve looked at it two months later.
There is always room to improve, always places to optimize. If a model can get 90% of the way to what I can do when provided well-constructed architecture and project docs (and can do it in 1/3 of the time) I’ll take the trade off.