Opus 5 Isn't What We Thought It Was...

Theo and Ben break down why Opus 5 feels like GPT-5.5 crossed with Fable rather than GPT-5.6 crossed with Fable, what Fable found when it audited an Opus thread line by line, where Opus still clearly wins (3D, animation, and Claude Code limits at half Fable's price with no 50% weekly cap), plus Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, the Hugging Face hack, Grok 4.5, Codex, and T3 Code. Thanks to this episode's sponsor, General Translation: https://nerdsnipe.link/gt Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: https://nerdsnipe.link/spotify Apple: https://nerdsnipe.link/apple Elsewhere: https://nerdsnipe.link/listen Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:23 T3 Code inbox sidebar 13:29 Kimi K3 14:39 K3 cost and speed 23:17 Hugging Face hack 26:13 Open model ban 31:04 Breaking containment 36:03 The Dean post 42:32 Distilled models 51:46 Opus 5 1:04:02 3D and games 1:11:16 Model picking #ai #programming #tech #coding S/O @Ph4seon3 for the awesome edit 🙏