Matt Pocock: Widely panned Opus 4.7-5 was 'SOTA enough' for me on £180/mo CC Ultra
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-11-03
Well-known TypeScript educator Matt Pocock shared his AI coding setup: a £180/month Claude Code Ultra subscription, nothing else. Pushing back on the prevailing sentiment that Opus 4.7-5 were bad models, he says he found them fine in practice and still considered them "SOTA enough". The remark came amid a discussion about whether he ever tries models outside the Claude family.
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