Anthropic's Opus 5 landed with better benchmarks.
A lot of daily users say it's actually harder to work with: more verbose, buries the answer, sometimes contradicts itself. Enough people went back to 4.8 that it's its own HN thread. Capability is scaling faster than judgment.
Ranking Every Single AI Model From Worst to Best
This summer had so many banger releases like Qwen 3.8, Kimi K3, Opus 5, Fable 5, GPT 5.6, Deepseek v4 and like 100 others... But which one is truly the best in terms of price, usage, and consistent intelligence RIGHT NOW?
I had Opus 5 make a clone of Little Inferno.
This is what it did in one shot!
Opus 5 + higgsfield just fired the web designer who was making $8K/MO.
There’s a difference. unnecessary means the work disappeared. it didn’t - someone still decides the type scale, the spacing, the palette, the component system. that work matters more than ever.
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