The best use of Opus 5.5 may be as an adversarial reviewer for another model. Claire now has Codex and Opus review each other's work rather than using one to replace the other. This cross-model loop catches issues either model might miss alone, making the additional cost worthwhile when quality matters.
The open chat field has been good enough, until it stopped being good enough. I acknowledge in this episode that just typing into Claude Code has produced real work. But this marks a shift in my thinking: general-purpose agents are now better used to orchestrate specialized harnesses than to do every job themselves. Giving a constrained agent a specific harness gets more consistent output than giving a powerful agent an open prompt.
The model doesn't actually remember previous conversations unless you use the Memory feature or paste in prior context yourself. Each new chat window starts completely fresh, which means if you want consistency across sessions, you have to build that context manually.
Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant.
6mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
