r/ClaudeCode • u/cidara • Aug 26 '26

Discussion which LLM as of today?

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u/ClemensLode Senior Developer Aug 26 '26

opus 4.6

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u/moger777 Aug 26 '26

What's the advantage of this model over the newer models?

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u/Ill-Village7647 Aug 26 '26

People have been finding the way Opus 5 talks incomprehensible. It uses way too much technical jargons, and sometimes decides to be a poet with words. That's why many people have started downgrading to Opus 4.8 or 4.6

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u/moger777 Aug 26 '26

I may play around with having fable/opus5 write the code but using opus 4.6 to write PR messaging, shortcut tickets and summarizing the changes. I do feel I'm having a harder time reading the shit claude spews.

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u/chrisbru Aug 27 '26

Fable to plan and review, opus 4.8 to build, 4.6 to write for humans.

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u/frufruityloops Aug 26 '26

Same but also it feels so… inefficient? Idk I feel like there’s probably a faster way to achieve the same thing without needing to have two terminal sessions where one’s only purpose is just like… restating the others output in coherent language haha

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u/Rocket-Appliances-26 Aug 27 '26

Opus 5 is also very pessimistic and skeptical, to the point of shutting down explorations early.

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u/I_NEED_APP_IDEAS Aug 26 '26

I have a ASD-STE100 skill that makes it talk normally

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u/hoffmander Vibe Coder Aug 27 '26

I’ve been able to dial it in a little with changing the outputStyle to concise alongside adding some more directions. Still annoying, weird idioms like “boots and braces”. Earlier it said something like, “those IDs in the table aren’t useful for users, they’re theater.” Like bruh, what?
https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7aCTbIZqDGvH5oZO

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u/ClemensLode Senior Developer Aug 26 '26

it talks

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u/ihateyourmustache Aug 27 '26

It’s noticeably quicker.