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Episode 52 · Monday, 5 October 2026 · 74 min

Opus 5.5 Made Claude Code Usable Again

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Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 on most work, costs 40% less to run than Opus 5, and an Anthropic researcher publicly apologized for the last model. But the real test isn't their benchmark table, it's how it holds up on your own work, so we had our digital twins give their takes and graded them live.

I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan on the Opus 5.5 release, and whether Anthropic has won back builders' trust after Opus 5. The benchmarks against Fable 5.1 and GPT 6, how to steer long runs in Claude Code, Claude finding a possible new gene editing mechanism, why Amazon blocked Meta Muse, and a live demo of a full marketing video Opus 5.5 made from one prompt.

If you're an AI builder or a tech exec who stopped trusting Claude after Opus 5 and wants to know if it's worth switching back, you need to watch this.

Hosted by Robert Ta and Jonathan McCoy, co-founders of Clarity, reporting from the front lines of building an AI company.

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