Claude Code is having a brutal month: > Opus 5 didn’t really land > watermarking backlash > 50% extra weekly usage disappears Aug 31 pretty good time to check out how good the alternatives have gotten (AA intelligence score): Fable 5: 62 Grok 4.6: 61 Kimi K3: 60 GLM 5.3: 60 Codex is also pretty good if you don’t care about the watermarking issue.