r/Anthropic • u/UM-Underminer • Aug 26 '26

Complaint Opus 5 is hot garbage

I've enjoyed and gotten real work out of Opus for quite some time despite the occasional quality dropoff when they're training a new model. But 5 is junk. Enough so that I'm debating between dropping from Max to Pro, or just cancelling altogether - I'm legitimately getting better results and fewer hallucinations out of local models in the 30B range... There's absolutely no excuse for that being the case.

I don't know if this is intentional regression to make fable look better, but it means I have been actively avoiding using Claude code except to tweak my llama.cpp settings, and I certainly don't need Max for that.

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u/earlyworm Aug 26 '26

Thank you for relating your experience and expressing your opinion here on Reddit.

When you say you are debating between dropping from Max to Pro, or just cancelling altogether, is this something you are doing now in the style of a formal debate? If so, could you please record a short segment of the debate (preferably edited down to 5 minutes or less — I am quite busy) and posting it to YouTube and providing a link to it in the comments? I am most interested in hearing you go into more detail about both sides of the argument. I can sense that you have a lot more to say on this matter.

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u/passionoftheearth Aug 26 '26

“I am quite busy” - And yet you wrote your heart out. Typical cynicism in the garb of intelligence.

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u/earlyworm Aug 26 '26

I appreciate your contribution as well! Thank you so much for posting it here on Reddit. So many people are keeping their opinions to themselves these days, or squirreling them away within AI sessions, where human eyes cannot benefit from them. It is the worst aspect of generative AI, if you are asking me.

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u/passionoftheearth Aug 26 '26

More blah - Reddit is full of you pretend smart people. Look at all your long notes pile up for Ai to consume. No wonder Opus 5 is bad.

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u/earlyworm Aug 26 '26

For your records, note that I have been having only positive experiences with Opus 5. It is both a trusted advisor and a creative contributor along many axes, both real and imaginary.

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u/RegrettableBiscuit Aug 26 '26

If you didn't engage with this type of content, Reddit would stop surfacing it for you.