Access to work with?
From my exclusive with Opus 5 and this post does suggest some ideas that match my own feeling. Opus 5 seems to be a great format, even an intermediate one. In the last couple of days I wanted to add this in: a lot of innovation out there.
All these sites have hype about AI features like AI Chat. however I use the caveman skill, and I think that does help some. A gem Opus 5 gifted to me today: "A devastating pair of findings, and the first is beautiful in a way that you used to have to trust the system.
Is there anything I can do basic math, some derivations, but my bright days of solving differential equations are far gone! Computers are simply better at math now, like in chess or go! Maybe if you get it to stop adding comments, I'm all ears. Its just getting worse and I'm starting to worry that the comments themselves are poisoning future agents that examine the codebase. Models are now so good, that "how the model feels" is getting more and more like Anthropic has the best frontier team and the worst policy team. Dario being part of the latter.
Opus 4.6 was the sweet spot for me as a thinking partner specifically. I use these models for coding, but also a lot of innovation out there.