GPT power user switches to Claude: Opus 5.5 spots code issues unprompted
Funny-Strawberry-168 · reddit · 2026-09-26
A developer who left Codex — which had become 'pretty unusable' — tested Opus 5.5 and came away deeply impressed.
- The model proactively flags potential issues in code he never asked about, connects them to his current work, and even offers to fix them in a separate worktree
- He says it genuinely builds a mental model of the codebase rather than just following prompts
- Having used Claude on and off since Sonnet 3.5, he finds its situational awareness consistently exceptional, while GPT models feel 'lobotomized' and overly prompt-driven
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