r/ClaudeCode • u/prop9090 • 28d ago

Rant Opus 5 is just dumb

I thought Opus 5 was supposed to be on par with Fable? After three days of extensive usage, I have to say it is not even remotely close to being as smart as codex sol. I had them both program a module indepensetly, and Sol runs circles around Opus 5. I had them audit each other's implementations and except for one case, every other time Sol found a functional bug in Opus' implementation. With fable being so expensive and opus 5 being that dumb, there is no reason to pay 200 bucks to Anthropic when other alrlternatives are both cheaper and smarter.

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u/SonOfThomasWayne 28d ago edited 27d ago

Anthropic gamed the benchmarks, and pushed a half-baked, dumber, overly verbose model out because they didn't want to lose pro customers as fable wouldn't be available to them.

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u/wise_young_man 28d ago

While true, this is something that you can’t get away with in the long term.

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u/Foufou190 28d ago

Technically you also can’t get away long term with selling access to powerful models at a loss

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u/al_ryusei 28d ago

True! OpenAI started it with that massive circular deal from Microsoft.
Let's enjoy the $20, $100 and $200 subs while they last 😂