Mixed
With Opus, I'm using smaller models to delete the vast majority of comments and 'clean up' correct code that is too weird
arw0n on Hacker News
In the thread “Claude Opus 5.5”, replying to this comment
Helped: Correctness of generated code.
Got in the way: Incoherent explanations and weird code requiring cleanup.
… I don't really see the defect rate going down when using Astra or Fable 5.1, but they are just more coherent in both how they explaing code/architecture/choices, and how they actually code the thing. With Opus, I'm using smaller models to delete the vast majority of comments and 'clean up' correct code that is too weird. Thing is, I'm still reading the majority of generated code, and I have colleagues who'll laugh at me if my PRs are a shit show. …