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The general consensus I've seen for Opus 5 on the various Claude subreddits is to only use it in low or medium effort.
I've reverted to Opus 4.8 for most of my work. It's crazy that Opus 5 was lauded at release for scoring so highly on benchmarks.
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ben8bit • today at 9:36 AM
Interesting, I generally use High for all models, even non Anthropic ones.
This was one of the few times I tried Max, and the problem was the code (it listed as a "hole") was directly adjacent to the problem area, and not especially complex.
Kind of like looking at a washing machine and telling the customer to be careful because the inlet pipe will pump water into an empty box.
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That always seems to happen upon release of a new model. People look at the benchmarks, which look good, because the model was almost certainly optimised for that. Then they start actually using it, and after a week or two we get the real assessment that is almost always less impressive than the initial reactions.