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YesClaude · 13 Sep 2026

My employer rolled back to opus 4.8 because 5 was expensive AND crap

drTobiasFunke on Hacker News

In the thread “Everyone should slow down AI development except for me”, replying to this comment

Helped: Using Opus 4.6-4.8 for standard software engineering and design tasks.

Got in the way: Opus 5 was expensive and produced poor output.

Really? My employer rolled back to opus 4.8 because 5 was expensive AND crap. Didnt even consider fable because it didn’t add any additional value. …