Claude is BACK with Opus 5.5

With Claire Vo · Sunday, September 27, 2026

Claire Vo reviews Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 after stepping away from Claude models due to verbose and preachy responses. She evaluates its pricing, tone changes, safety boundaries, multi-turn agentic performance, UI prototyping abilities, and SVG generation capabilities, explaining how she now divides her AI model stack between Opus 5.5 and OpenAI Codex.

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Key takeaways

Claire Vo tested Claude Opus 5.5 on four complex agentic workloads (inbox triage, backend coding, deep research, and computer use) running between 25 and 82 steps from a single prompt. Read more →
Claire Vo abandoned earlier Claude models not over intelligence benchmarks, but because of excessive conversational verbosity and preachy disclaimers. Read more →
Claude Opus 5.5 writes clean, valid SVG vector code directly in text, eliminating the malformed coordinates common in older models. Read more →
Claude Opus 5.5 fixes the preachy tone and verbosity of prior releases, earning its way back into daily engineering stacks. Read more →