[r/Anthropic]score: 0.17
Switched back to Opus 4.8
July 29, 2026
Users report Opus 5 experiences regression in instruction following and implementation accuracy compared to Opus 4.8. While Opus 5 improves bug diagnosis, it tends to over-engineer responses and fail to request clarification on ambiguous prompts, increasing manual correction overhead during large-scale code changes.
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