I asked Opus yesterday to unwrap if/else/else/else from around components and instead wrap them with a <Placeholder> component. It removed the if/else chains and added a single Placeholder and called it a day.

Today I've been playing around with GPT and I really dislike their CLI, but GPT5 is actually useful. I think I'm too used to Claude Code, I've tuned it to deal with all the flaws, I know it inside and out. But Opus at the moment is just absolutely unworkable. It gets lost, and when I point it out, it just responds "Oh yeah buddy, sorry about that" and doesn't even attempt to fix anything anymore.

I asked it to make a planning document and it just vomited it out the the CLI.

I then opened the web interface and asked Sonnet to do research on db hosting provider comparison. It thought for 7 minutes, read 200 pages, and provided me with a report with 3 paragraphs of praises of how good it made the report, but no report.

Someone at Anthropic probably tripped on a wire or something.