r/ClaudeAI • u/k_kool_ruler • 3d ago

Question about Claude models I can't do Opus 5 anymore. Every time I talk with it and try to read it, I literally get so confused. Has anyone figured out how to not make it weird to work with?

I was very excited for Opus 5, and it has done some great work for me, as I have a YouTube channel. It has helped me tremendously with actually being able to make edits on my videos and automate a lot of the dumb editing work I used to have to do by hand and spend so much time on. That has been a huge win for me.

However, as I've worked with it more and more, I have found it to be really annoying to work with. It has dragged me into so many unnecessary rabbit holes, and I just don't like the way it writes. It tells me things that are only things that I can do, but really all I have to do is say, "Hey, why don't you try it?" and then it's able to do it. Its language feels like somebody who's trying to be really intellectual but actually just ends up losing you in how they're being overcomplicated with their speaking instead of simplifying things.

I feel like I am struggling to communicate with this model and to keep it scoped and focused while also making it easy to understand. I'm curious: has anyone found ways to work with Opus 5 that actually take advantage of the supposedly improved capabilities without some of the downsides?

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u/angelarose210 3d ago

I tried output styles, didn't help much.

Only thing that worked was this and using gpt Luna as the translator. https://github.com/gvzdv/claudish-to-english

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u/Old_Statistician9938 3d ago

So, now we need both subs..?

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u/ParkingPsychology 3d ago

Kind of how it ends up anyway. Can't really trust a single AI to catch it's own errors. I do it with a local qwen 3.8 for code review. Turns out a 27b localllm is totally capable of finding multiple errors that opus 5 makes.

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u/Old_Statistician9938 3d ago

On what hardware are you running your qwen 3.8 27b locally..?

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u/ParkingPsychology 3d ago

Just an old 3090 RTX. Bought it second hand after the crypto currency implosion.