KOL Slams Claude Opus 5 as Shallow and Inferior to GPT 5.6
andrewgwils · x · 2026-07-26
AI KOL @andrewgwils expressed shock at the poor performance of Claude Opus 5 so far. He reported issues including shallow understanding, weird mannered writing, and poor instruction following, bluntly stating that regardless of benchmarks, GPT 5.6 performs better in actual use.
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