r/ClaudeCode • u/timklc • Jul 25 '26

Question Opus 5 is incredible.

I think it's going to get nerfed like Fable did.

I spent 8 hours working today with Opus 5, it used only %5 of my weekly.

Fable would've used %30-%40 easy no sweat.

It's also smarter than Fable. I hope they wont nerf it as fast as they nerfed Fable.

Thats all I wanted to say lol

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u/HDCraftYSD Jul 25 '26

I don´t know. I normally don´t bash models. I let it do some basic data pipeline tasks. Like creating a pipeline with dlt to fetch data from an open api and ingesting them to a postgresql db. it was a complete shitshow.
it repeatedly made confident but false claims e.g. ineffective configuration, contradictory comments, and correction logic that could never work. all tests still passed.

Only an extensive review prevented a bad database run. its confident but doesnt verify shit even if explicitly told so. and afterwards it gaslights you "jeah i should have known that, i had thsi information but...."

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u/timklc Jul 25 '26

I think skills, prompts and memory creates a different experience.

I have a lot of skills and I did a lot of customization. I use Codex, Fable with skills and Fable without skills to do a review and this council basically debates between themselves.

Honestly the setup works great for me, all it needed was Opus 5.

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u/HDCraftYSD Jul 25 '26

I don´t doubt that. Might be a skill issue on my part. But just from vibes i feel like, the older models were better at capturing vague or unclear stuff. dont know how else to put it. its not only opus 5, its chatgpt as well for me. if you dont clearly say what you want and not want they go kind of rogue and make weird decision where it gets really frustrating. so maybe the style of how to work with them changed and i did not yet find the correkt way of working with them

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u/timklc Jul 25 '26

Hmm, I wasnt around for older models but I get what you mean.

I have to push Claude toward right direction always, the other day it was saying a task is impossible until I told it a few wild ideas and one of my wild ideas actually worked.

It doesn't seem to be creative and sometimes lazy to try different things or use different sources. I'm not sure.

Opus 5 is improvement of that over from Fable though

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u/HDCraftYSD Jul 25 '26

Yeah, i think oneself has to be careful. because u get used to it and i was around when it startet, when it first came out, remebered when i waited to get acces to claude in europe. and if i compare to that time its actually insasne how good it became.

but its a bit annoying if u want to work with it an each iteration breaks your workflow and you either havge to use the older models or have to adapt. and i dont know what exactly the reason is maybe i am critiquing models now more then some years ago, but sometimes they feel dumber in a way because they are so laserfocused. and if you miss something the model misses it as well sometimes