Captain of a losing team. Following Malcolm Gladwell’s ideas in David and Goliath, it is often more productive and a safer bet to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond, where you risk being eaten before you have the chance to grow large enough that the pond can no longer devour you
Astra on xhigh had been stuck on a set of DevOps tasks for about two weeks. Opus 5.5 on high reasoning resolved them in two hours with the same skills, environment, permissions, SSH access, and context
I’ve been using Codex for about three months now and haven’t used Claude in half a year before Opus 5.5 was released.