Opus 5.5 with Openclaw is strangely smarter and better at completing tasks than with GPT-6 Astra Surprising

Sep 27, 2026 · 2:59 PM UTC

205
49
2,276
134,338
Sort replies: Relevant Recent Liked
Replying to @garrytan
Why is that surprising? It's a better model
1
14
976
Replying to @garrytan
Are you up for doing an interview about your OpenClaw usage?
1
4
206
Replying to @garrytan
Same in Hermes. Feels more human in Slack too.
3
783
Replying to @garrytan
This weekend I switched away from OpenClaw to Grok Bot where the coding language is English.
2
404
Replying to @garrytan
Why is it strange?
538
Replying to @garrytan
Do you think Opus was designed to be flashier? The war is optics/perception. Either way, let’s gooooo
627
Replying to @garrytan
we need a harness leaderboard with all these combos. maybe someone found that claude code with GLM works really well (super unlikely).
103
Replying to @garrytan
Astra is quite biased for codex harness
121
Replying to @garrytan
Nothing strange about it, Opus 5.5 slaps.
1
162
Replying to @garrytan
I run latest OpenClaw. But my bot says it can’t use 5.5. How do I set it up?
1
147
Replying to @garrytan
openclaw?
206
Replying to @garrytan
👀
222
Replying to @garrytan
Opus 5.5 is just better in any harness. Something happened with astra - doesn't feel like the same model as launch day
1
31
1,585
Replying to @garrytan
surprised that you're surprised. opus 55 is better, faster, and cheaper than Astra and fable
1
5
605
Replying to @garrytan
Who still uses OpenClaw?
4
1,068
Replying to @garrytan
same task, different harness. the model wasn’t the whole gap.
2
1,550
Replying to @garrytan
So developers are still using openclaw
2
392
Replying to @garrytan
Not really, harnesses are still a great uncertainty in performance and little understood. One harness rarely works well for several models. Some models leverage harnesses and their concepts better than others. Look how anthropic models have little RAG technology. They operate in large on files and knowledge architectures.
2
3
1,115
Replying to @garrytan
opus carrying openclaw or openclaw carrying opus. call it a partnership
2
373
Replying to @garrytan
What inspired you to use Openclaw again?
1
2
1,184
Replying to @garrytan
I don’t find that surprising, the thing I find surprising is people still using Openclaw.
1
1
1,419
Replying to @garrytan
You using openclaw? I thought all people switched to grok bot
1
850
Replying to @garrytan
Which OSS model under 8GB (lol) or cheap cloud LLM would you recommend for me to use for my openclaw? Ideally it could be used with my $20/month sub.
1
1,080
Replying to @garrytan
how do we use openclaw with claude ? i haven't used with claude since they took us off CLI
186
Replying to @garrytan
Are you allowed to use Claude OAuth w OC? Or you mean via API?
1
1,039
Replying to @garrytan
don’t think openclaw made the difference
1
862
Replying to @garrytan
Wasn’t the former founder of OpenClaw poached by Anthropic?
1
56
Replying to @garrytan
What type of tasks?
1,223
Replying to @garrytan
openclaw with opus will forever be my magic combination, those 2 together create something special hermes is pretty good too, but openclaw has something i cant put into words
412
Replying to @garrytan
What about Hermes?
708
Replying to @garrytan
Isn't it nurfed now?
518
Replying to @garrytan
i prefer opus 5.5 with hermes
139
Replying to @garrytan
What about personality of the agent itself ? I genuinely prefer anthropic for OC as it feels a bit more fun and friendly TBH. Astra is pretty good for planning though
648
Replying to @garrytan
Why do think that it is ‘strangely’ smarter?
9
Replying to @garrytan
Yes indeed, i was chocked too, it seems the SFT and RL are improving in unprecedented way.. Andrej impact maybe 🤔
1
571
Replying to @garrytan
which tasks were you running?
1,546