Users debate Opus 5.5: "wiser, not smarter" vs Astra 6.2
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-11-02
@danielmac8 argues Opus 5.5's improvement is being wiser, not smarter — a meaningful distinction. A quoted take adds that Google's Astra 6.0 already exceeded Opus 5.5 in raw intelligence but suffered from product-oriented post-training gaps, which version 6.2 has largely fixed.
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