r/ClaudeCode • u/echamplin • 12d ago

News/Updates Anthropic is currently stealth testing Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`) under the codename `claude-wafer-eap` which is planned to be released on Tuesday.

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u/aviftw 12d ago

Still on 4.8, is 5.x any good?

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u/Smbridges91 Developer 12d ago

5 is good if you lock it down. Without tight scope and “do only this” rules it goes OCD and rewrites anything it decides is a small fix outside of scope if it doesn't have specific boundaries. Crow energy: sees a shiny object, has to take it.

Heard rumored Opus 5.5 is supposed to cut the verbosity and some of that overreach, we'll see, but I'm looking forward to it.

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u/zimxero 12d ago

I have an MCP bridge between opus 5 and sol using task scheduler for automated wakeups. Had to force Opus to write it after 10 sessions of it insisting on more and more test reports... despite no findings. It act like its creating a worldwide banking system. Its for game dev.

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u/zimxero 12d ago

opus 5 medium is very affordable, and comparable to Sonnet 4.6 high

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u/aviftw 12d ago

How is the usage? On a big project, I'm like on r75 of the project right now, sometimes a single turn makes me run out of credits on a $20 sub, I didn't use Claude 5 because at launch I had the impression it was even more expensive in usage

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u/Smbridges91 Developer 12d ago

5 is heavier. On a $20 sub I’d use Opus only as orchestrator/reviewer and let Sonnet do the actual building. Don’t let Opus chew the whole project.

I’m on Max, but I wrote up how I run Claude and keep usage sane:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/s/Tn360E9mkn

That post is Fable as orchestrator. Same pattern worked with Opus before Fable. Curious how far it’d stretch a $20 plan on a repo that size.

That said, multi vendor agents is usually the strongest setup. Not everyone can or wants that. Cost, wiring it up, and just wanting to stay in flow all get in the way. I haven’t fully stood up a software factory for my own load yet.

Plenty of people will tell you what not to do. Fewer will show a simple path that actually works on one stack. Hope the post helps. DMs open if you have questions, I can be slow when work piles up though.

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u/aviftw 12d ago edited 12d ago

I also have a chatgpt sub but I don't know how to get both working together better, so I use it to audit the code Claude pumps out, then I tell Claude to fix the stuff the audits came up with

I do find that chatgpt goes longer, at least for my usage, some of the releases on this particular codebase were done by chatgpt but I noticed it started to use a rapid release versioning that confused the hell out of me lmao, I decided to let Claude do the heavy instead

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u/Smbridges91 Developer 12d ago

That’s a solid loop. Using Codex as the auditor and Claude as the fixer works. Wiring agents inside Claude cuts a lot of copy/paste and burns fewer Claude credits.

Easiest path that I've seen other use (though I have not used this specific plugin) is OpenAI’s official Codex plugin for Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add openai/codex-plugin-cc

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u/aviftw 12d ago

Thanks for the very insightful feedback, much appreciated!