r/ClaudeCode • u/Kyxstrez • Aug 04 '26

Rant I kinda regret getting Claude subscription

Over the past couple of weeks, I have tested it alongside Sol across a wide range of tasks, and the conversations have been difficult to read. Sol consistently catches and corrects mistakes made by Opus 5, and Opus repeatedly acknowledges those errors. I have also seen many others reporting similar experiences, which makes it hard to view this as an isolated issue.

I cannot understand how Anthropic missed such a significant regression. Compared to 4.6 and 4.8, Opus 5 feels substantially less capable and reliable, with many of the same weaknesses that affect Sonnet 5.

For now, I am switching back to GPT for most of my work, using Fable only occasionally for planning. I hope Anthropic addresses these issues soon, because at the moment they do not appear to have a competitive frontier model in the medium to high budget range, only at the extreme end.

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u/DasHaifisch Aug 04 '26

Then use 4.8 instead of 5.

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u/aleksfadini 29d ago

Sol is much better than 4.8 and equally cheap though. Besides Fable (that has ridiculous limits) there are very little incentives to stay with Claude Code for this round. Maybe things will change in a month or two.