
Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench: AI Code Quality Under Iteration
Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench hit a 24% strict pass rate, beating Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5, yet code quality still degraded. What it shows about coding agents over time.
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Karpathy gave Opus 5 one Lord of the Rings paragraph and a 1M-token budget for a three.js render. What the run shows about agentic work and self-verification.

Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench hit a 24% strict pass rate, beating Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5, yet code quality still degraded. What it shows about coding agents over time.

Anthropic removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for Claude 5 models. Here is how the rules changed and what it means for your CLAUDE.md files, skills, and system prompts.

Claude Opus 5 benchmarks, pricing and HN reaction: near Fable 5 performance at the Opus 4.8 price, and what it means for choosing a daily-driver model.

Claude Opus 5 launched July 24, 2026 at $5/$25 per MTok - matching Opus 4.8 pricing while delivering near-Fable 5 intelligence. Full benchmark comparison across 7 evals, pricing breakdown, and decision guide.

Claude Fable 5 pricing beyond the $10/$50 per MTok list rate: real cost per task versus Opus 5, Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5, and when the premium pays off.
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