Claude Opus 5: What Happens When an AI Agent Can Keep Working Longer Than You Can?

Yesterday, July 24, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 . The headline facts are easy to repeat: it is cheaper than Claude Fable 5, stronger than the older Opus model, and designed for everyday use. But the more interesting question is not how quickly it can answer. It is what happens when an AI agent can keep working after the first answer. An AI agent is not only a chatbot. It can take several…