> I'm enjoying working with Ox in a way that I'm just not enjoying talking to the 5.0 Anthropic models.

That’s very valid, but right now every other model I use is easier to talk to than Opus 5.0

Opus 5.0 has an impenetrable way of communicating. I can parse it, but it takes so much more work than it should.

Yeah, that's a fair point. "More intelligible than Adriano Celentano in Prisencolinensinainciusol" is not a high bar.

As another comparison, I went back to MiniMax M3 for a while last night. It was significantly faster than Ox, but I felt M3's replies were harder to parse, not quite getting to the point. But I guess I could curb that with some prompts.

It depends if the Ox Alpha pricing is as cheap as was being rumored. If it's competitive with DeepSeek Flash and significantly undercutting Luna, that feels like it will be significant.