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Claude Opus 5Software

by Anthropic

Who uses, recommends or left Claude Opus 5, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Software engineer at Anthropic, creator of Claude Code and author of Programming TypeScript; blogs at borischerny.com.
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Opus 5 is a great model for coding, data analysis, design, biology, knowledge work.

Launch-day post on Opus 5, focused on it being the least prompt-injectable Anthropic model. Cherny works at Anthropic.

2026-07-24·x.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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