Opus 5 seems mostly like the same day, with fewer failures
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-07-25
If your eval harness and environment are well designed and not overly tuned to a specific model, today should feel much like any other day — just with a slightly lower failure rate.
The post is a brief reaction to Opus 5, framing the change as incremental reliability rather than a dramatic workflow shift.
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