Dev swapped to Opus 5 after OpenAI credits ran out — 'this is not great'
lucasmeijer · x · 2026-09-18
Developer lucasmeijer says he had to use Claude Opus 5 after running out of OpenAI credits, and found it struggling at basic tasks like building and running his project despite correct instructions in the repo's rep file.
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