Opus 5.5 Is Capable but Needs Pushing, as New-Model Hype Outruns Reality
haider1 · x · 2026-10-06
The author argues that recent launches like gpt-6, astra and Opus 5.5 show how easily people get carried away by new-model hype. Opus 5.5 is "extremely capable", he says, but you still have to drag it into doing the work: it spends ages explaining why something might not work until you finally say "just build it" — and it suddenly admits the approach is totally fine.
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