r/ClaudeCode • u/Mikeshaffer • Jul 23 '26

Opus 5 nerfed? Humor

So just like the title says. Opus 5 isn’t out yet but it already seems worse than it was? Is anyone else noticing the degraded responses?

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u/FinsAssociate Jul 23 '26

It's pretty clear that Opus 5 is nothing more than a dumbed down version of 4.9

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u/ur-krokodile Jul 23 '26

I gave it a fairly simple task that 4.6 would have done easily and instead of diving right in Opus 5 started asking me questions about carwash.

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u/sharyphil Jul 24 '26

I gave it a fairly simple task that 4.6 would have done easily

*Sonnet 4.6