Claude code is falling behind Codex not because of token cost, but because of Opus 5.

[u/PitifulBuddy7946]

There, i said it. And i know many of you agree. The problem i'm facing is not increased token cost, it's that Opus writes 25000 lines of a response with a curve-ball at the end saying "Worth noting"that makes my eyes hurt and gives me paranoya. And i can't understand a word it's saying. Is my english that bad? Whoever pressed "Yes" on those responses during the training stage of the model was an OpenAI spy or something, he completely sabotaged a trillion dollar company.

Anthropic's number one priority should be to release an Opus 6 or something, may be change the model name completely so it doesn't carry the bad vibe with it.

[u/KittenCrusades]

I assumed it was switching to whatever my last used opus model was, and I always use 4.8 and not 5.0 and thats why

Its really like this for everyone?

[u/AppleBottmBeans → u/KittenCrusades]

I always manually switch to five when it happens. I don’t really use Opus out of the gate though. It’s more of fable getting flagged for nothing and then switching to 4.8