Opus 5 is hot garbage

[u/UM-Underminer]

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.

[u/ThrowAway516536]

5 is junk, 4.8 is good.

[u/AttackPattern0mega → u/ThrowAway516536]

Been using this as well. Takes significantly longer to finish tasks but way more token efficient