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Are posts praising Opus 5 a psyop?

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I'm not gonna repeat the points everyone and their mother made about Opus 5. We all know it's flaws.
We also heard that 4.6 is the beloved Opus model.

And with this I agree, I found Opus 5 to be just decent at solving my issues, but it constantly leaves caveats, on every push back he goes "lmao you're right i oversold / i was wrong". Time waster, makes code a mess.
BUT it's token consumption was low.

So i switched to 4.6 Opus and the "caveats" posted are actually worth something, it questions itself and me with facts and good counter proposals, fills in the gaps I missed.
BUT it's token consumption is very high

However every post praising Opus 5 is like "i love it, rip my tokens though haha". Bro, what tokens, Opus 5 has like Sonnet spending and similiar quality id say, 4.6 destroys my tokens after 4-5 prompts.

Makes me think if the posts are made by actual users or people cosplaying as Opus 5 users. Or bots.

Sorry for the rant, but I needed to double check if im being gaslit.

Posted Aug 28, 2026, 7:56 AM UTC

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