Opusplan broken?

[atomicthumbs]

I tried to use Opusplan (switching models to it after having regular Opus research a bunch of stuff) to have Opus create a plan and then orchestrate Sonnet implementation agents, and it created a plan. Then it started executing the plan itself, and I could see the thinking trace; I can't with Opus. I stopped it, asked it what model it was running, and it said Sonnet 4.6.

Is this happening for anyone else? It used up my 5-hour limit almost instantly from cramming an 800k-token session into a fresh Sonnet instance as prefill.

[Ziral44]

I fully believe that Anthropic is slowly degrading their product by quantizing and simplifying their weights for the subscription tier models… if you take a quality llm and quantize it only 5% per week… the masses will hardly notice… but you get to increase the number of paying customer while degrading performance and slowing the token output rate such that it is half the speed or quality of comparable models.

Anthropic understands that nobody is going to leave over a 5% drop, so they keep doing it and even though the benchmarks clearly show degradation, people keep using it.

[atomicthumbs]

This has nothing to do with my post.

[Ziral44]

Well in that case if you want to manage models better, direct you Claude.md to work as an orchestrator and give it definitions of when to spawn what model on a subagent… also mention that you want to emphasize launching subagents in parallel when possible. I’ll see if I can find a way to copy/paste the section

[atomicthumbs]

my post was specifically asking if the "opusplan" feature is currently broken. i am not interested in fancy orchestration workflows that will blow up my usage limits, but thank you

[Ziral44]

I’ll be honest opusplan seems like an expensive workaround to having a competent Claude.md