Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5

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19 points | by croemer 1 hour ago

3 comments

  • ectoloph 2 minutes ago
    These bursts of downtime are one of the reasons I end up with multiple smaller subscriptions between providers.

    I'd just end up being really annoyed about the downtime if it lands in the middle of a working day.

  • Aldipower 44 minutes ago
    I would say "Elected errors _in_ Claude Opus 5" wouldn't be incorrect either.. Opus 5 isn't very reliable for coding and introduces a lot of regressions every single time I use it. Do you have the same experiences?
    • flaburgan 4 minutes ago
      I also found it to forget some obvious cases in a quite simple flow (validate the email address of a user who register), that surprised me a lot. Maybe it's because I got used to Fable? But I am quite sure Opus 4.8 wouldn't have make this mistake. If I had time I would try the same prompt with it to see. Anyway, back on 100% Fable for me.
    • egeozcan 21 minutes ago
      I don't know what I could be doing differently to you but I found Opus 5 to be more reliable than even myself at times. Maybe your stack is unusual or you have conflicting commands in your prompts vs CLAUDE.md (that really confuses it)? It could be anything but this huge error bar in delivered quality is one of the biggest issues with LLMs.
    • benjiro29 28 minutes ago
      Opus 5 isn't very reliable for coding and introduces a lot of regressions every single time I use it.

      And GPT 5.6 Sol over engineers just about everything. No LLM is perfect, its about learning the issues with each LLM and figuring out if you can live with it. Knowledge means that you can anticipate if it tries to pull something funny, and harness it against that behavior.

      • Aldipower 24 minutes ago
        Sure, but I am a long time Opus user 4.5,4.6,4.7,4.8 and I wonder what's wrong with 5?
      • cyanydeez 25 minutes ago
        this would be _Great_ advice if you owned your own LLM and your knowledge was trapped in Amber because you were satisfied.

        It's horrible advice given what we've seen consistent: changing alignments, changing guardrails, changing system prompts, changing inference priorities, etc.

        Anyone who relies on these for their work product is chaining themselves to a matrix multiple of indetermintism.

    • bearjaws 20 minutes ago
      I do not experience any regressions, I don't really notice much difference either.
    • trentor 27 minutes ago
      Maybe it's my harness but I haven't seen it introducing regressions.
    • cbg0 38 minutes ago
      Do you not have unit tests, or how does it introduce regressions? You can tell it how to run the test suite in CLAUDE.md
      • simiones 35 minutes ago
        It is a well known fact that projects with unit tests never have regressions.
        • cbg0 3 minutes ago
          I don't understand the need for the snarky comment, LLMs can run the test suite and avoid regressions.
        • cyphar 3 minutes ago
          [dead]
      • Aldipower 36 minutes ago
        I detect the regression already in planning with Opus 5, so I do not let Opus 5 implement anything. But it is a waste of time and tokens! Does planning with Opus 5 works out for you?
      • quaheezle 35 minutes ago
        Opus 5 tries to modify the unit tests as a cover to its own regressions - thinking its own logic is correct and the test must be wrongly specified
  • croemer 1 hour ago