Taming Anthropic's Opus 5: Brilliant in Flashes, Frustrating in Practice
every · x · 2026-07-29
The Every team shares their in-depth experience testing Anthropic's latest model, Claude Opus 5. They found the model to be brilliant in flashes but frustrating in practice, requiring too much management and repeated prompting to keep responses simple.
They discovered a workflow to "tame" Opus 5: assign it one substantial job with a clear finish line, then leave it alone. The article also discusses how to audit agent instructions built for older models so they don't get in the new one's way, and theorizes why one-shot AI demos of video games clog up social feeds.
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