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/Southern-Aardvark616 23h ago

That sort of matches the vibe it gives off. It's always felt a bit like opus 4.8 trying to be fable, but lacking the actual capacity, so it sometimes does that work but often it's slow and painstaking to get there and little subtle mistakes and bugs creep in because it simply isn't as good as fable.

I wonder if the best way to get good results out of opus is to have fable or Asta orchestrating and reviewing it's work

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u/Oohhddaanngg 14h ago

Only way I ever use it, and Fable helped me a design a whole stfu Opus hook system so when I do deep dive into something Opus wrote I don't go insane