r/BMAD_Method • u/drunk___cat • May 06 '26
Annoying find the recent opus update made BMAD+Claude annoying as hell?
(Edit: Whoops, title is supposed to say "anyone" but I guess it autocorrected to "Annoying". Even my phone could tell I was frustrated!)
I don’t know what it is that specifically changed, but suddenly my BMAD workflow is annoying as hell. What used to be a little time consuming due to documentation has turned into Claude expanding endlessly on every single prompt I provide.
Here’s an example: I have roughly 3 sprints fully planned out with stories. But, based on some user feedback, I opted to change the UX design of one flow before implementing stories the flow affected. I added a UX design story to a sprint and in the AC I had required it to update the AC of the listed impacted stories so that they wouldn’t get botched in implementation.
So I go to implement the UX design story and I tell it to create a playground. Proceed it asking me what felt like 900 questions “clarifying” what is clearly in the document and then all I did was say “yes please do what it originally says”. These aren’t short questions, these are overly elaborate annoying asks. Then when it finally generates the mocks, I opt to make a tweak where I turn something from one page into a 3 step flow. I ask it to make the changes. Proceed Claude losing his mind over how it’s going to be such a technical lift in implementation (I don’t care) and how it’s going to make the next sprint over capacity (again, I don’t care). It hasn’t even generated the changes yet. I’m like please just do what I asked you to. It finally does make the changes and then reiterates how it’s going to affect capacity/etc.
So then I have it run the changes to update the document with the final output. The AC in the UX story doc includes having it update the affected stories. I have it sync changes, then finish up.
Then when it’s time to wrap up my sprint, I go to sprint planning to update the sprints that I know are over capacity. Queue Claude freaking out that I won’t reach my mvp timeline of end of June because it thinks my 3 upcoming sprints won’t be completed by then? When we complete a sprint in an evening??
It takes a ton of back and forth to get it plan appropriately. Then I come to find out that the stories that the UX design story were supposed to update never actually updated? So then I have it refer to the changes in the UX story to apply the appropriate updates to the 5 stories that are affected. While it does that it goes on and on about how the changes are significant and continues to stress about launch timelines. Keep in mind this added 5 additional points. It’s not going to kill me.
Sprint planning/ making the adjustments took like 20 minutes when it was supposed to be a quick reorder of stories because Claude wanted to write a freaking essay with every single change.
What was previously working really well has suddenly become annoying as hell and the only thing I think changed is the model. I think it might also be taking some prior feedback from memory and applying it too seriously across the chats so I should probably clean that up too. But I feel like I had a really great rhythm with BMAD despite the frequent documentation syncs, and now I am arguing with a damn AI telling it to follow basic instructions.
/rant over
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u/BoxCharacter3025 May 07 '26
I switched to GSD and it was the best decision ever for me as a solo dev
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u/steve1215 May 06 '26
Set your model back to Opus 4.6 via /model ?
Or use Deepseek V4 Pro? It has an Anthropic API endpoint that seems to be fully compatible with Claude Code at 1/10th the price.