Dev Tries Claude for Coding Agents Again, Finds Sol 5.6 Sharper But Less Friendly
iskander · x · 2026-09-02
Developer iskander reports switching some coding-agent tabs back to Claude and getting stuck going in circles, with verbose "relocated failure" style slop. His takeaway: Sol 5.6 isn't as friendly as Opus 5 but is consistently sharper — a first-hand behavioral comparison between frontier models in coding-agent workflows.
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