I don't use Claude, but isn't the consensus right now that Opus 5 is worse than previous generations? I suppose you could just commit to always using Fable and never use Opus, but it

> might decide your 8yo is actually trying to build a cleverly disguised bomb so her request gets silently downgraded to a dumber model

My contention isn't that models haven't improved or won't keep improving – my position is that the business goals of our American AI firms (Anthropic especially) aren't necessarily aligned with continuing to make those improved models available to the public forever. We need only look at the Mythos/Fable split for evidence of this happening already.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vgpyni/my_opus_5...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vgq0jm/opus_5_af...

https://www.reddit.com/r/claude/comments/1vfvdgz/anthropic_l...