I see a lot of people in here ranting about how bad opus 5 is and I’m genuinely curious, why don’t you guys just go to 4.8? Am I missing something? Like is there something opus 5 is really good at that keeps you guys coming back? I’ve completely avoided using 5 because the reception is so universally bad so I haven’t really encountered the issues many of you are bringing up. I set my default to Fable and use it until my limit runs out then switch 4.8 until the weekly reset. I also try to remember switching models for things I don’t need a frontier model for so I don’t burn tokens needlessly. As a result my experience since 5 dropped is largely unchanged. I’m building a pretty complex backend for an app atm and these two have been fine- better than codex which adds unnecessary complexity. I don’t trust opus 5 to write any out of fear it would spaghettify the codebase. For reference I have the 20x sub Am I missing something? Genuinely curious btw I’m not trying to call anyone dumb or whatever. (if anyone was wondering, switching to 4.8 is /model claude-opus-4-8) submitted by /u/ArcticMooss
Originally posted by u/ArcticMooss on r/ClaudeCode