This week Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 at half the price of its flagship, positioned it as "frontier intelligence at half the price," and watched it top the benchmark tables. The developer reaction was not gratitude. It was a single Hacker News thread that passed 800 points and 700 comments...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/jamilxt/claude-opus-5-wins-every-benchmark-so-why-do-developers-want-opus-48-back-18hi)