I left Claude for months. Opus 5.5 is why I'm back
After months away due to frustration with verbosity and poor UX, the host has returned to using Claude, declaring Opus 5.5 a major improvement: it’s faster, cheaper, and crucially, no longer 'annoying.' While not perfect, it excels in frontend design, agentic tasks, and SVG generation, ma
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