Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Anthropic rolled out Opus 5 on July 24, pitching it as a token-efficiency upgrade to its popular coding model. Ars Technica calls it a noteworthy bump but not an Opus 4.5-level breakthrough in agentic coding.
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