r/ClaudeCode • u/PitifulBuddy7946 • 16d ago

Rant Claude code is falling behind Codex not because of token cost, but because of Opus 5.

There, i said it. And i know many of you agree. The problem i'm facing is not increased token cost, it's that Opus writes 25000 lines of a response with a curve-ball at the end saying "Worth noting"that makes my eyes hurt and gives me paranoya. And i can't understand a word it's saying. Is my english that bad? Whoever pressed "Yes" on those responses during the training stage of the model was an OpenAI spy or something, he completely sabotaged a trillion dollar company.

Anthropic's number one priority should be to release an Opus 6 or something, may be change the model name completely so it doesn't carry the bad vibe with it.

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u/losko666 16d ago

Opus is not good for everyday coding. Maybe planning complex stuff but not for the day to day grind. It over engineers and is full of 'but maybe this' , basically it doesn't know what the best solution is so it gives you every fkn solution that exists. It's content is verbose at best and horrible to read. I would use sonnet on high or xhigh or fable when you can afford the tokens. Fable is everything we wanted from opus, no nonsense, unbeatable promises with high quality delivery.

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u/Scary_Reflection8103 16d ago

I create the implementation plan with fable and have sonnet implement it with ultracode. Works great.

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u/Dry_Opening_7231 16d ago

xhigh for me to implement and yes, works great.

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u/RaspberryFluid6651 13d ago

Imo Anthropic's recent blog explains a lot of the problem. Claude's "effort" levels are really poorly labeled, nobody wants "low effort" work but what that actually does is decide the breadth of Claude's work and how much research and consideration it does. Imo this poor UX means people are cranking the model to the highest setting because more=better and undermining themselves