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Re:Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I hav... by wilg on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @08:07PM (#46521209)
you can definitely just tell it what abstractions you want when adding a feature and do incremental work on existing codebase. but i generally prefer gpt-5.2
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Re:Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I hav... by boppo1 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @10:58PM (#46522386)
I've been using 5.2 a lot lately but hit my quota for the first time (and will probably continue to hit it most weeks) so I shelled out for claude code. What differences do you notice? Any 'metagame' that would be helpful?
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Re:Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I hav... by wilg on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:40AM (#46523008)
I just use Cursor because I can pick any mode. The difference is hard to say exactly, Opus seems good but 5.2 seems smarter on the tasks I tried. Or possibly I just "trust" it more. I tend to use high or extra high reasoning.
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