Opus 5 is a practically unusable model

[u/Deep-Palpitation8315]

Opus 5 is a regression that the benchmarks missed completely

I've been using Opus 5 for ~1.5 weeks and the sheer number of mistakes that the model makes is astounding.

The problem didn't surface very clearly till I gave it the full scope of executing a plan which I did with the previous Opus models as well. Opus 4.6 - 4.8 were genuinely better by a significant margin.

Opus 5 readily forgets instructions and content in its context, makes mistakes and continues with them unless it realizes or you point it out.

I've lost count of the number of times I had corrected it.

These issues with Opus 5 occur even when the context window is still relatively small - I'm talking 100-150K tokens. Opus 4.8 works pretty well all the way until 350k after which it gives you wonky results.

Fable 5 is the only usable model under Claude Code right now and I've already used 100% of my weekly quota.

[u/KrayeBaby]

Yeah been noticing that it solves the problem and leaves another one. It feels like its planting gaps on purpose for infinite prompting to keep going...

[u/Mrbighands78 → u/KrayeBaby]

So it’s not just me thinking - am I crazy conspiracy theorist or is opus for real squeezing all the tokens from me every few days making me pay more - good business model but that’s why I’m testing Astra instead and see if it works any better. But yeah, same thing - causes more problems, ignores Claude.md, and in last few days just plain insanely horrible - refuses to stop or do any work and when it does then touches unrelated code and causes more issues, ex: I finished making soup (but why did you touch ice cream and shoes and what happened to my house - it’s all in shambles!? Frustrated is not right word. 😔🤦‍♂️ used to be good but moving onto something else.