I have used almost all the frontier models in my coding workflow consistently over time. Opus and sonnet in claude code, gemini 3.1 pro and gemini 3.5 flash(using it for the past 1 week) in antigravity, gpt 5.5 in codex, kimi k2.5 and glm 5 in claude code (i had a hack to wire in these models from bedrock). And I couldnt get the kind of intelligence that Opus gives in any other frontier model…GPT 5.5 is close, but wouldnt beat Opus…Everytime I use a model other than Opus, it starts off well, but it always end up hitting a blocker where the model just struggles to solve what I wanted. And i always end up transfering the context to claude code and let the Opus take care of it, and everytime it knows better than me, and does the job more perfect than I expect. At this point I couldnt trust any model other than Opus. And the most interesting of all is the kind of emotional intelligence I see from Opus in the claude app. Everytime I go to claude for an advice, be it buying decisions or handling meetings and negotiations or career decisions, it guides me through them very empathetically and intelligently. There was this one incident, where I was asking claude, its opinion on me asking a help from a friend, and it responded with how bad the idea was , and went on to tell me that I have some unreloved feelings about a bad thing that happened to me. It is so wise, and had a perfect balance of empathy and intelligence. I have never seen anything like that from an LLM. submitted by /u/Former_Rutabaga_1670
Originally posted by u/Former_Rutabaga_1670 on r/ClaudeCode
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