With all due respect to Boris Cherny, this response is part of the problem.
The complaints about Opus 5 have become pretty consistent: it’s lazy, sloppy, and verbose. That matches my own experience. Responding that people simply haven’t understood the right use case misses the point.
It’s disappointing to see Anthropic frame user feedback this way instead of taking it seriously.
@scaling01 Agree. People are sleeping on using Opus to hill climb. We use it for optimizing CPU and memory, optimizing CI times, improving frame rates, reducing...