Comment by sph87

I think of it in generational terms. Opus 3 required me to prompt and edit, iterating over functions almost one at a time. Opus 4 started to show agentic capacity but it largely bloated code and still needed frequent course corrections. If it churned for more than 15-20 minutes you knew something was off.

Opus 5 takes that and changes the game. A simple prompt goes through research, design, verification, review and self-corrects constantly. Agentic workflows can run for days without stopping, without losing the thread or devolving into slop.

I can’t even imagine what Opus 6 is going to bring.

The biggest thing holding AI back is people. People can only change so fast and yet AI doesn’t care. It just keeps accelerating.