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I left Claude for months. Opus 5.5 is why I'm back

I’ve been off Claude for months. Not because it got dumb, but because it got annoying. The rambling, the hedging, the preachy little disclaimers on tasks that didn’t need them. I moved most of my daily work to Codex and I didn’t miss it. Then Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5: 40% cheaper than Opus 5, fas…

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  1. 2026-09-22 19:03 · How I AI
    I left Claude for months. Opus 5.5 is why I'm back

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