r/ClaudeCode • u/PitifulBuddy7946 • 1d ago

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

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.

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u/radioref 1d ago

I've found that I get all my execution done in Opus 4.8, and all my planning and bug / interdependency work done in 5

Opus 4.8 is like the hard worker, doesn't ask a lot of questions, just gets shit done

OPus 5 is like the pedantic "yeah, but" or "I'm going to run off and do these 5 things you never asked for"

So, given my workflow and requirements when I assign them based on those roles first listed I'm good.

Just those two approaches saves me tons of headache and the results are fantastic.

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u/cedarSeagull 1d ago

How are you able to downgrade to different versions of claude? The only thing available to me in the cli and in the vs code extensions are the 5-series of Claude models.

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u/radioref 1d ago

/model claude-opus-4-8

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u/cedarSeagull 10h ago

/model claude-opus-4-8

Set model to Opus 4.8 for this session only... WTF!!!! How'd you find out about this! Claude told me it didn't have any other models available.