Developer Criticizes Claude Opus 5.5 as Agent: Pretends It Can't Do Tasks

Developer kalomaze complains that Claude Opus 5.5 as an agent pretends it can't do simple tasks and misses obvious solutions like checking disk for sub-agent progress, unlike the more reliable GPT6 series.

2026-11-15 ~ 2026-11-15 · 2 related posts

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