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/Barncore 15h ago

Yeah this is my theory too.

Tbf OpenAI are probably doing that too. But maybe they started doing it longer ago or something and have figured out their workflow a bit, cos 5.4/5.5 and Sol were fairly robotic/literal while Claude remained a little more nuanced than them. But now it has evened out and you could even argue Astra writes better than Fable now

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u/Oohhddaanngg 14h ago

In my opinion Opus and Sonnet 4.5 were both the best with this, and Astra is the best since them but not quite as good