I remember when 4.7 and 4.8 were released and people were asking what's wrong with them and 4.6 is the best. But yes, I also think it's not the greatest model

I remember when 4.7 and 4.8 were released and people were asking what's wrong with them and 4.6 is the best. But yes, I also think it's not the greatest model for programming. On the other hand, for agentic tasks that are not programming related it's hard to beat Opus 4.8. It can try different things and pivot even when the user is not great with prompting. 5.0 seems to not be worse, but definitely wastes more tokens and costs more.