Codex users: do this right *now*. Max reasoning effort... is off by default. Luna at Max reasoning is ~ Sol Medium / Opus 5 Medium level at 1/6th the cost. Change your life today.show more

Gemini 3.6 Flash is now on DeepSWE at 49%,... roughly on par with Opus 4.8 at medium reasoning.show more

HERMES AGENT NOW RUNS CLAUDE OPUS 5. NEAR FABLE... 5 INTELLIGENCE. HALF THE PRICE. SELF-VERIFIES ITS OWN WORK. AVAILABLE TODAY VIA NOUS PORTAL (20% OFF ALL MODELS). Anthropic shipped Opus 5 on July 24, 2026. same $5/$25 per million tokens as Opus 4.8. but the benchmarks tell a different story. WHAT CHANGED FROM OPUS 4.8: FrontierBench v0.1: Opus 5: 43.3%. Opus 4.8: 18.7%. 2.3x jump on the same test. ARC-AGI-3: Opus 5: 30.2%. 3x better than the next closest model. beat Fable 5 on 8 out of 13 benchmarks. at half the cost ($5/$25 vs $10/$50). same price as Opus 4.8. twice the intelligence. no reason to stay on 4.8. THE SPECS: model ID: claude-opus-5 context: 1M tokens (default and maximum) max output: 128K tokens thinking: on by default effort toggle: low / medium / high per request fast mode: $10/$50, 2.5x faster knowledge cutoff: May 2026 minimum cacheable prompt: 512 tokens (was 1,024) SELF-VERIFICATION (the biggest change): Opus 5 checks its own work automatically. Anthropic says: delete your verification prompts. "include a final verification step" now causes OVER-verification because the model already does it. for Hermes /goal tasks this is a direct upgrade. the judge checks evidence. the model also checks evidence. double layer of verification without extra tokens. EFFORT TOGGLE: low: fast, cheap, routine work. medium: balanced, daily tasks. high: full reasoning, complex problems. set per request. not a global switch. matches Hermes /reasoning command: /reasoning low (routine) /reasoning high (complex) Opus 5 effort toggle + Hermes reasoning control = precise cost management per turn. WHERE OPUS 5 FITS IN HERMES: DAILY DRIVER (replaces Opus 4.8): same price. 2.3x better benchmarks. set as your main model: Desktop app / Dashboard: Models → claude-opus-5 CHIEF OF STAFF: synthesis across multiple agents. reads Kanban, prioritizes, routes tasks. self-verification catches routing errors before they cascade. COMPLEX CODING: SOTA on agentic coding benchmarks. FrontierBench 43.3% = best public model for coding. set as coder profile model. /GOAL TASKS: self-verification + completion contracts = the model proves its work AND double-checks the proof. long-horizon goals finish correctly more often. MoA AGGREGATOR: strongest synthesis model at $5/$25. pair with GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 as references. Opus 5 aggregates. best quality at mid-range price. presets: max-quality: reference_models: - provider: openai-codex model: gpt-5.6-sol - provider: xai model: grok-4.5 aggregator: provider: anthropic model: claude-opus-5 COMPUTER USE: near-Fable 5 quality for browser automation. at half the token cost per session. computer_use tasks burn lots of vision tokens. Opus 5 halves that bill vs Fable 5. WHAT TO KEEP OPUS 5 AWAY FROM: cron monitoring: too expensive. use DeepSeek or no_agent mode. sub-agent grunt work: use GPT-5.6 Luna ($1/$6) or DeepSeek. auxiliary tasks: use Gemini Flash. routine web extraction: use a cheap model. Opus 5 is for the turns where quality compounds. planning, synthesis, verification, complex reasoning. budget models handle everything else. NOUS PORTAL: 20% OFF ALL MODELS Nous Portal currently runs a 20% discount on all models including Opus 5. $5/$25 official → $4/$20 through Nous Portal. the cheapest way to run Opus 5 right now. hermes setup --portal select claude-opus-5 as your model. discount applies automatically. Opus 5 replaces Opus 4.8 everywhere. same price. better at everything. no tradeoff. straight upgrade. hermes update /model claude-opus-5show more

Rejoice. Just following up with another quick W in... Codex You can now configure your reasoning level in plan mode separately directly from your config file. This is huge for Plus users who want to plan with high or xhigh reasoning levels, and then switch over to medium reasoning for implementation, without needing the slash command. This is a great way to save your usage limits, and now it happens automatically. Even if you're on Pro, this should make you very happy. Prior to this, it was switching you automatically to medium every time you planned, which was pretty annoying. Place this near the top of your config file: plan_mode_reasoning = "high" (or xhigh) 0.150.0 is a massive quality of life update. They're clearly listening. This time I am shouting out Charlie. 🙏show more

GPT 5.6 Luna Max vs 5.6 Sol Medium… Yeah,... it’s not even a question 😭 Sol on MEDIUM produced a much better result than Luna on MAX—and needed only around HALF the time. Same harness. Better generation. Faster result. Luna may be cheaper, but if you have the budget, I would absolutely use Sol. Saving money is not worth it when the weaker output creates hours of extra work later.show more

Moonshot's Kimi K3 is free on NVIDIA right now... 😳 2.8T params, 1M context, multimodal (text + image). Max reasoning on by default. → → sign up → select Kimi K3 → start No card, no billing. Go grab it.show more

The model is faster, the pelican isn't as good!... GPT-5.3 Codex Spark on the left, GPT-5.3 Codex 5.3 on the right - both at medium quality settingsshow more

GPT-5.5 by Reasoning Effort: I've asked it in Codex... to create a physics-based visualisation of RL cycles for different sized models (70b, 1t, 10t), to demonstrate how the amount of RL you can do differs by model size. My assessment of each: - Low: weird slop - Medium: kinda cooked - High: sort of tried but ultimately incoherent - Extra High: elite - really nice idea and well executed Obviously this is just one shot, but worth trying different reasoning levels for the new models, medium seems to be pretty good for GPT-5.5 and it was really bad for many previous GPT models.show more

ANTHROPIC JUST DROPPED THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO PROMPTING OPUS... 5 This is the most important prompting guide for anyone using Claude. Bookmark this before you forget. Most people still prompt Opus 5 like older models. That's the mistake. > give the complete task upfront — don't drip-feed instructions. > explicitly ask for shorter responses if you want them. > use low/medium effort by default. increase effort only when needed. > let it finish the entire feature instead of asking for partial implementations. > use subagents intentionally for large codebases, not every task. Opus 5 is at its best when you stop micromanaging it and let it own the work. Read it before writing your next prompt. Claude → Opus 5 → Agentic Execution → Production-Ready Output → Moneyshow more

This is amazing. Do this: 1. Set model to... Opus 4.8 2. Reasoning effort to /ultracode Enables Claude Code's new Dynamic Workflows. Claude will autonomously detect complex tasks, write an orchestration script, and spawn an agent swarm.show more

🐐 Gemini 3 Pro GA One shot prompt is... in comment with the codepen link I repeat no model in this entire world able to implement this level of physics and spatial reasoning Not even Opus 4.6 and Gpt-5.3 codex , this is like a generation gap Sub Woofer submitted thisshow more

DeepSeek V4 Flash being ranked almost equal to Opus... 4.8 is actually insane to me. Against Kimi K3, Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Qwen 3.8 Max Preview, you give up a LOT by choosing DeepSeek. This is not a 2-point difference in practice. I’ll post the Opus 4.8 comparison next because you need to see this.show more

A small codex workflow that does WONDER, at almost... no cost Ask GPT 5.6 Luna (Max) to use the ImageGen skill for a 3D low-poly object. Then to use the img2threejs skill. Tada. I didn't even spend 1% of my weekly tokens for this.show more

Claude Code's effort parameter is something you need to... keep in mind before starting any task It's not just about picking the right model anymore (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus). Now you also need to think about which effort level to use before each task. One tip I always go back to: when Opus can't solve a problem, just adding ultrathink makes things click, it's almost magic. We wrote a post at Hedgineer benchmarking each effort level by cost and time Read it here:show more

Kepa pushing Max Dowman to lift the trophy at... 16 is the best video right now 😂🏆”show more

Routing for long-horizon coding agents is a big deal.... Not Diamond just announced a model router that works natively with Claude Code. This is huge. It picks the model and reasoning effort before each turn in a session, runs through a privacy-preserving local proxy, and your requests still execute through your own gateway. In their benchmarks, it approximates Opus 4.8 Xhigh quality at 39 to 61 percent lower cost.show more

BREAKING: Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.8—and it is a... MONSTER We've been testing for about a week Every 🪨 and our verdict is they could've just called it Opus 5, it's that good. Here's our vibe check: - Beats GPT-5.5 on Senior Engineer bench. On our toughest benchmark Opus 4.8 scores a 63—a hair higher than GPT-5.5's score of 62, and a full 30 points higher than Opus 4.7. It tackled a ground-up rewrite of a production codebase, and actually built something that works. HOWEVER: Coding performance varied a lot at different reasoning levels. We recommend using it on xhigh for best results. - Incredibly good writer. Opus 4.8 scored a 79.6 on our writing benchmark—measuring models on real-world writing tasks we do all of the time like essay writing, promo email writing, and more. It beats GPT-5.5 by 6 points. It produces well-written prose with fewer "AI-isms". It's also very good at writing in your voice given the right context. HOWEVER: Writing performance also varied with reasoning levels. Medium reasoning had higher incidence of AI-isms—we found best results with high. - Beast at knowledge work. Opus 4.8 is very good at general knowledge work tasks like report creation, research and more. It produced the best PowerPoint one-shot we've ever seen on our deck generation benchmark. - Emotionally intelligent, willing to question the frame. I've also found it to be quite good at talking through psychological or interpersonal issues. It has a high EQ, and it's also good at not glazing and helping to expand your perspective. Its thought process feels extremely rich and dynamic. THE BAD: These days a model is only as good as its harness, and Codex is still a far superior harness to the Claude Desktop app. This has kept me using Codex + GPT-5.5 as my daily driver, but I am flipping back and forth a lot more between Codex and Claude. Anthropic is back baby! Read the rest on Every 🪨:show more

Scary flooding on the interstate in downtown KC. DO... NOT drive into flood waters. This is video of I-70 at Broadway. Police now have the highway blocked off until the water recedes. Video was taken by Max Kuenzi just after 5 pm. KMBCshow more

Today we’ve made Think Deeper free and available for... all users of Copilot. This now gives everyone access to OpenAI’s world class o1 reasoning model in Copilot, everywhere at no cost. I urge you to give it a try. It’s truly magical. Think Deeper helps you:show more

holy sh*t this is f**king dangerous i just figured... out how to run Opencode in Codex It has Deepseek V4 Flash which replaces Opus 5 at 1/4th price You can get 10,000 request in only $10/month along with Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.5 Max [here is how you set it up] 1. install the 'codex-router' 2. Put in the Opencode Go API key 3. Done that's it Save this no matter what. This will be the best thing you do this weekshow more

SOL is now live on the XRP Ledger. Users... can access SOL, Solana's native token, on the XRPL DEX, or bridge it at Powered by Axelar.show more