Vibe Check: Claude Opus 5 Is Brilliant in Flashes, Frustrating in Practice
Anthropic’s latest Opus can do impressive work—but getting it there may require dismantling the systems you already use
July 24, 2026
Claude Opus 5 is a hard model to love. In its first week at Every, it argued with instructions, stopped before the work was finished, and generally didn’t play well with our existing skills and plugins like compound engineering. Our first reaction was: What have they done to my boy?
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