"Opus 5.5 is the first model that does everything I need": Reddit user on taste and shrinking wow-gaps
AdSad7594 · reddit · 2026-09-27
A hobbyist Reddit user published a long-form praise of Anthropic's Opus 5.5, arguing its defining quality is "taste" — human-like communication, fast judgment of what's good, and strong intuition. He traces his "woah" moments from o1 through Opus 4.5, Fable 5 and Astra to Opus 5.5, noting the gaps between them keep compressing. For the first time a model covers everything he personally needs, with major leaps in Blender animation and spatial reasoning over predecessors. He doesn't monetize his hobby use, and admits the accelerating release cadence brings both excitement and a bit of anxiety.
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