Claude Opus 5.0: 7 Speculative Bets From the 4.x Curve

Book: Pocket Guides for Developers — the 8-book collection Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal Architecture in Go My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub What this is, and what it isn't. This post is speculation. It's not a leak. It's not a screenshot. Nobody at Anthropic told me anything. Every prediction below is built on top of publicly verifiable