Claude Opus 5 review: this model is brilliant (but annoying)

You guys, I'm tired. What I'm tired of is models coming out every week. New models, new benchmarks, new frontier intelligence, new things to test. It's been a little bit of a run the past month. We've seen Fable come and go and come again. We've seen GPT five six. We've seen SONNET five. Lots of so many fives recently and just so many models. And I've been lucky I've been able to test these models, been able to play with them for, you know, sometimes days, sometimes weeks. It just depends on who I'm working with. And it's been really interesting and exciting to have access to all this frontier intelligence. But I think we have an intelligence overhang. I really think that we're running out of and by we, I mean, the average coder, average software engineer, average creator, average builder, average consumer, average business person. I think we're running out of ways to truly leverage this incremental intelligence. So this is my hypothesis. In the next year, we're always talking a lot more about speed, talking more about cost. We're talking more about open source, and we're gonna be talking a little less about intelligence. Although, I think we might be talking about specific types of intelligence other than software engineering. But despite being tired, today, we are going to talk about Opus five, baby. Opus five is here. So we got point two additional Opus points, Opus Opals, whatever. However, we're tracking the increments here on Opus. Opus five is here. I've been able to test it a little bit. I have some opinions. Now some of the stuff that I cover this episode is gonna be a little different than what I've done in the past. Yes. We're gonna do the how IAI benchmark live. And, yes, we are gonna look at the prototypes. We're gonna look at PRDs, and we're gonna look at agent personality. But I'm also going to put on my large language model psychologist hat, and we're gonna talk about Opus's personality. And we're gonna talk about Opus's personality relative to GPT's personality because I think this is super interesting. If you're thinking about what is the difference really between these models and you don't wanna look at the difference in terms of benchmark capability. You really wanna understand what these labs are going for, why these models are being built, and how they're being tuned. Looking at their personality at this moment where intelligence is very high is super fun. So we're gonna do a little of that. We're gonna do the Howat AI benchmark. We might do some live coding. We're not gonna cover too much of the specs in the model because read the blog post. Read the blog post. We'll link to it in the show notes. What we're really gonna talk about is, is Opus five good? Am I gonna swap it in? And how is it different than the other Frontier models on the market? …