Claude Opus 5 Reported to Struggle with Complex Tasks, Potential Inference Bug Suspected

dejavucoder · x · 2026-07-30

A developer reported that while Claude Opus 5 outperforms other models in general tasks, its performance degrades significantly when handling complex problems. Although Opus has historically excelled at 0-to-1 creative tasks, this weakness is more pronounced in version 5, leading the author to suspect a current inference bug.

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