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Claude Sonnet 5

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Updated 2026-10-02 14:32 UTC · 2026-09-25 – 2026-10-02 UTC
Experience score32.5/10030 comments in 7 days

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Claude Sonnet 5 · Hacker News · 30 days of rolling 7-day experience scores 30405060 Observed-day mean: 40.3 2026-09-04 · 38.4 · n=5 · 2026-08-28T23:00:03+00:00 – 2026-09-04T23:00:03+00:002026-09-05 · 42.6 · n=6 · 2026-08-29T23:00:03+00:00 – 2026-09-05T23:00:03+00:002026-09-06 · 46.9 · n=7 · 2026-08-30T23:00:02+00:00 – 2026-09-06T23:00:02+00:002026-09-07 · 50.7 · n=8 · 2026-08-31T23:00:03+00:00 – 2026-09-07T23:00:03+00:002026-09-08 · 50.7 · n=8 · 2026-09-01T23:00:03+00:00 – 2026-09-08T23:00:03+00:002026-09-09 · 58.5 · n=6 · 2026-09-02T23:00:04+00:00 – 2026-09-09T23:00:04+00:002026-09-28 · 31.8 · n=9 · 2026-09-21T23:57:03+00:00 – 2026-09-28T23:57:03+00:002026-09-29 · 31.7 · n=9 · 2026-09-22T23:57:03+00:00 – 2026-09-29T23:57:03+00:002026-09-30 · 30.7 · n=8 · 2026-09-23T23:57:03+00:00 – 2026-09-30T23:57:03+00:002026-10-01 · 30.7 · n=8 · 2026-09-24T23:57:02+00:00 – 2026-10-01T23:57:02+00:002026-10-02 · 30.7 · n=8 · 2026-09-25T14:32:03+00:00 – 2026-10-02T14:32:03+00:00 30.7 09-0309-1109-1809-2510-02 Claude Sonnet 5 · Hacker News · 30 days of rolling 7-day experience scores 30405060 Observed-day mean: 40.3 2026-09-04 · 38.4 · n=5 · 2026-08-28T23:00:03+00:00 – 2026-09-04T23:00:03+00:002026-09-05 · 42.6 · n=6 · 2026-08-29T23:00:03+00:00 – 2026-09-05T23:00:03+00:002026-09-06 · 46.9 · n=7 · 2026-08-30T23:00:02+00:00 – 2026-09-06T23:00:02+00:002026-09-07 · 50.7 · n=8 · 2026-08-31T23:00:03+00:00 – 2026-09-07T23:00:03+00:002026-09-08 · 50.7 · n=8 · 2026-09-01T23:00:03+00:00 – 2026-09-08T23:00:03+00:002026-09-09 · 58.5 · n=6 · 2026-09-02T23:00:04+00:00 – 2026-09-09T23:00:04+00:002026-09-28 · 31.8 · n=9 · 2026-09-21T23:57:03+00:00 – 2026-09-28T23:57:03+00:002026-09-29 · 31.7 · n=9 · 2026-09-22T23:57:03+00:00 – 2026-09-29T23:57:03+00:002026-09-30 · 30.7 · n=8 · 2026-09-23T23:57:03+00:00 – 2026-09-30T23:57:03+00:002026-10-01 · 30.7 · n=8 · 2026-09-24T23:57:02+00:00 – 2026-10-01T23:57:02+00:002026-10-02 · 30.7 · n=8 · 2026-09-25T14:32:03+00:00 – 2026-10-02T14:32:03+00:00 30.7 09-0309-1109-1809-2510-02
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2026-10-0230.782026-09-25T14:32:03+00:00 – 2026-10-02T14:32:03+00:00
2026-10-0130.782026-09-24T23:57:02+00:00 – 2026-10-01T23:57:02+00:00
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Hacker News · 30.7 · 8 scored comments · Read platform reviews →

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What people think

One user finds that Opus 5.5 takes shortcuts on small side tasks, while Sonnet and Fable would have completed them properly. One user found their month-long experience with codex/GPT 5.6 noticeably better than Claude Sonnet 5 overall.

About the sample and scores

As of 2026-10-02 14:32:03 UTC, Claude Sonnet 5 in the Claude family has 30 explicitly attributed community comments in the last 7 days; its community score is 32.5/100. Available category scores include General text 38.4/100 (n=19); Speed & latency 34.9/100 (n=5). Scoring method and sources

Community reviews

Selected comments from the last 7 days. The balance of excerpts does not represent the share of positive reviews.

4 selected excerpts

Community reports about limits cannot establish official allowances.

NegativeGeneral text

“Sonnet 5 was so horrible”

NegativeSpeed & latency

“Sonnet 5 to perform worse across all of our evals, especially against time”

NeutralGeneral text

“I would never get an answer back even for very simple prompts. It would just churn on nothing and return max token usage reached”

PositiveReasoning

“It does worse than Sonnet 5. Mainly because it is more reluctant to keep going to get an answer”

Comment context
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I built an adversarial esoteric programming language to benchmark LLM models and just ran it on Sonnet 5.5 It does worse than Sonnet 5.

How's your AI experience today?