After a full day testing Opus 5, the author sees little improvement
jiayuan_jy · x · 2026-07-26
The author says they spent a full day testing Opus 5 and did not notice any significant improvement.
Their takeaway is that it mostly just gets the job done, with performance feeling similar to GPT 5.6 sol and Opus 4.8.
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