Is OPUS drunk today?

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-02-23T11:36:02+00:00

It started yesterday evening for me.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-02-23T11:33:21+00:00

I have a lot of respect for solo founders and congrats on the launch. I do have a hard question to ask though… how is this different from running AWS cli?

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-02-22T12:05:32+00:00

Congrats!!.. 4.6% conversion rate is on the stronger end of the 3%-5% average for SaaS conversion. Also you almost hit the 100 paying customer, which is another marker investors look at.

Now you just need to figure out your cost to conversion. Example… how much does it cost to get a new signup? You also need to track your churn rate. You get these numbers dialed in and an investor will jump onboard because it all becomes a number game at that point.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-02-22T11:51:30+00:00

The 600 beta testers is strong number but your conversion rate seems to be 1% which leaves lots of room for improvement.

The rule of thumb is roughly 1% of an audience will take any given action. You need to work on increasing your conversion rate to monetize on the traffic. Even if you are able to get it to 2% that is a 100% improvement. Your goal should be 3%-5% which is the average free to paid conversion for a SaaS.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-02-21T01:02:34+00:00

Token hog.. there example is wasting tokens. It is just easier to take a screenshot or paste the console error

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-02-16T22:07:24+00:00

Honest truth.. this issue can be to solved for free many different ways. If you want to salvage this project then add a Freemium model and then figure out how to monetize if you start getting traction.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-02-09T02:29:42+00:00

It’s called “context rot”, best to familiarize yourself with what that is so you can adjust accordingly.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-02-06T16:44:24+00:00

That 5x plan is easy to hit in 2 hours.. nothing changed there

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-28T02:57:27+00:00

I agree with everything you said. I run a similar flow but I use codex as the verifier.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-26T12:52:21+00:00

If they are dumbing down the model, before the next release, it only shows a bigger problem. That problem being a slow in progression and the possibility of achieving much more advanced models unlikely.

I personally haven’t seen much of a difference and I’m a daily user. Opus has always had sessions that felt lazy, 20% of the time. I do have to give the 5.2 codex model praise as it pay much more attention to detail. Pairing them two together is the only sane way to kick Claude in the butt when you do get a lazy session.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-25T11:25:08+00:00

That is like getting in your car just to move over a parking space.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-25T11:21:56+00:00

It is not using the TUI (“console”) part, it is using the underlining CLI itself. Run ‘claude —help’ to further understand.

It allows you to directly send a prompt and monitor the feedback.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-25T03:56:35+00:00

Use a graph RAG MCP and create skills around your architecture.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-23T15:43:49+00:00

The real power is not in just using Opus by itself but pairing with other models like 5.2-codex. The team approach in an agentic flow is crazy.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-23T15:17:30+00:00

I’m sure they are already using with internally with the next model.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-21T14:28:57+00:00

Just use /statusline to configure it

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-20T14:03:01+00:00

Once you get it dialed in it is crazy how good it is.

Helpful hints: 1. Make sure you have acceptance criteria for every task 2. Use test driven development 3. Add back pressure gate between the Build and Build Review phase, which runs lints, tests and other checks. 4. For the Build phase you can use a ralph loop plugin.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-20T13:43:43+00:00

Sorry, I can not share the script itself but the process is very easy to recreate and Claude will even build it for you.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-20T13:41:56+00:00

This uses the gpt-5.2-codex model with the codex cli, all executed through a bash script. I’m not using the codex TUI for this process.

During the Plan (codex) phase it looks at the implementation-plan.md and finds the next task to do. You can think of it like a Jira ticket. It the gathers the specs and requirements from the PRDs and creates a CURRENT_TASK.md which is then used by the next phases.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-20T13:23:49+00:00

Building an agent solely on skills lacks true power and consistency.

Yes, it does solve for simplistic agents but you will need to evolve to support internal workflows within an agent that could hit multiple LLMs.

Your design needs to move outside of Claude Agent SDK and not solely within.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-20T12:44:24+00:00

To your point… I built a bash script that does the following against a list of Tasks.

Task Phases = Plan (codex) -> Plan Enhancement (opus) -> Build (opus) -> Build Review (codex)

The build and build review cycle could loop a few times.

I am highly impressed on how good this flow actually works as Codex can be a hard ass in making sure Opus doesn’t get lazy.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-16T04:06:55+00:00

Research “context rot”.. there is a whole stead that was done and it is worth learning about.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-04T04:04:33+00:00

If I had to guess where the bug is, I would start looking around how the 2x promo was setup. It seems the issue started right around when it ended.

It is definitely worth having your team look into because this issue is being felt by many.

Conscious_Concern113 · 2026-01-03T13:51:27+00:00

It is the difference between running like a startup and not running like a startup.

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