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NoClaude · 14 Aug 2026

I've always found the 5 series models from Anthropic aren't great and use 4.8 for a lot of my work

bradgessler on Hacker News

In the thread “Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?”

Got in the way: Forgetting context during rapid-fire UI review tasks.

… My tinfoil hat theory is Anthropic is trying to get their new models to take on higher-level longer-running tasks, which has a trade-off against rapid-fire tactical use of an LLM. For these reasons, I've always found the 5 series models from Anthropic aren't great and use 4.8 for a lot of my work.