Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 promises Fable-level performance at a lower Opus price, and Zvi argues it should raise your ambitions. He walks through the official pitch and pricing, Anthropic’s and outside benchmarks, how often the classifiers bite, and the most consistently positive round of reactions he has ever collected: on its writing and conversation, 3D vision, music videos and a Bach fugue, plus the dissenters, the practical advice, and his current guide to which model to use for what. The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:35 - The Official Pitch * 04:34 - Our Price Cheap * 06:16 - Official Benchmarks * 08:04 - Other People’s Benchmarks * 11:59 - Claude Classifies * 13:32 - The System Prompt * 13:37 - Reaction Rules * 14:11 - Vision In 3D * 16:30 - Claude Creates * 19:08 - Claude Composes * 19:42 - Positive Reactions * 25:17 - Good Talk * 27:29 - On Writing * 30:52 - Big Model Smell * 32:51 - Check Your Work * 33:12 - Negative Reactions * 34:11 - Not So Fast * 34:54 - Some People Need Practical Advice https://thezvi.substack.com/p/claude-opus-55-should-raise-your Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe