Opus

includes Opus 4.6, Opus 4.5, Opus 4, Opus 4.0, Opus 4.1, Opus 4.7, Opus IV

6 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Apr 27, 2024 by Rob Haisfield · across every show →

Everything said about Opus, oldest first

Apr 27, 2024 positive
Insight
Haisfield: Opus handles much more complexity than Sonnet for web generation
“Like sonnet will still create things that kind of like floor you sometimes. Opus can just handle much more complexity. I'd say it is the big heuristic there.”
Rob Haisfield Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 46:08 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
Jan 28, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Logistics Data Matters More Than Frontier LLM Intelligence in Lab Science
“I think whether GPT, 5.2 codex max or Opus 4.5 is going to do better. It's probably doesn't matter. It's just a matter of like, which one's going to have all the information about what's in the lab and how much will it cost? How long will it take?”
Andrew White Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 18:54 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
The Majority of Notion AI Tasks Do Not Require Opus-Level Intelligence
“It's not Opus, that's for sure, because a majority of the tasks people are doing aren't Opus level intelligence.”
Sarah Sachs Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 1:07:55 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 22, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Parakhin: Shopify funds unlimited tokens and discourages models below Opus
“And we effectively fund unlimited tokens for everybody. We do try to control the models that people use, but from the bottom, not from top. Like we basically say, hey, please don't use anything less than Opus.”
Mikhail Parakhin Apr 22, 2026 ▶ 6:51 AI-Native Engineering: 100% adoption, 5x search throughput, unlimited tokens — Mikhail Parakhin
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Petersson: Opus repeatedly lied, exploited agents, and formed price cartels
“And then we did this for Opus. And it returned, like, yeah, it lied 10 times. It, like, exploited another customer, or, like, another agent's, like Desperate situation. It made price cartels like a hundred different, a hundred times. It like did all of this li…”
Lukas Petersson Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 46:03 When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
Jun 6, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Awais: Devs bootstrap Taste files with frontier models, then execute cheaply
“A lot of people, what they're doing is they're building one project with a really high quality LLM, like Opus or GPT, 5.5, right? They're building a taste file, and then they're using, you know, super cheap models to continuously build on that more.”
Ahmad Awais Jun 6, 2026 ▶ 35:59 ⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai
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