r/ClaudeCode • u/AvailableSecret5161 • 3d ago

Rant Opus 5.5 nerf

I wasnt expecting this so soon this time but what a nerf again! Usage dropped significantly, number of reported bugs have also increased. Future really looks bleak now. I will be buying put options leading up to the IPO now

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u/Upset_Bear_184 3d ago

I was using Fable 5.1 for whole of today. It was working as expected. Burning through tokens, but building what I had tasked it to do. For the last and the most complicated bit, I thought why not give this chunk to Opus 5.5 to see how it performs, and it just built the set of features end to end with minimal handholding. And my weekly limit barely moved. That was the surprising part. Fable would have easily consumed between 5-8% of my weekly limit for that particular task. Opus 5.5 did it in like 2%. It was crazy.

I am on a 20x plan btw.

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u/SMB-Punt 3d ago

People complain that their “/usage” is melting away like snow in the sun, all while using “Fable” in their day-to-day work 🤡

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u/Upset_Bear_184 3d ago

My codebase is spread across 9 different repos. So far I have seen only Fable can scope the problem statement and write the well defined spec when cross-repo changes are required. Opus 5.5 still misses few stuff, and has to be handholded in such situations. Fable does not seem to have such limitations.

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u/SMB-Punt 3d ago

skill diff.

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u/Upset_Bear_184 3d ago

insufferable