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Opus 5 Dev Tool Burns Through Budget, Delivers Fluff
A developer testing Anthropic's Opus 5 model in Cursor found it consumed a £20 monthly credit budget in one session, generating 44 files of repetitive analysis. The final output was a generic suggestion to build tax software, offering no actionable value. The author recommends using Grok 4.5 High Fast for practical coding tasks instead.
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The critique highlights a growing issue: expensive AI models can over-generate low-value output, but one developer's anecdote doesn't prove systemic failure.
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