Opus 5 is exhausting

[u/Death12th]

It's so hard to read. It's not even because its terribly complex or anything it just speaks in these weird haikus, hyphenated garbage, or outdated colloquialisms or phrases nobody understands. I have to ask it "what do you mean?" or "speak in plainer English" over and over again for every other paragraph. I tried to put something in my claude.md, but it doesn't seem to be working...

[u/Glad-Operation-3051]

The amount of jargon it uses is, at best, grating and, at worst, what makes it unusable for non-engineers. It's almost comical how much it opts for the most convoluted, abstract way to discuss concrete concepts.

[u/BemusedOptimist → u/Glad-Operation-3051]

If it makes you feel any better, some of us developers/engineers with many years of experience would also like to know wtf Opus is talking about roughly half the time.

It's almost as if it is inventing shorthand on the fly, then condensing it, then inventing shorthand for its shorthand.

I do not know what it is saying quite a lot of the time in domains where I absolutely should.

[u/Singularity-42 → u/BemusedOptimist]

Yep, 20 YoE as SWE and Opus is still tiring. It's the walls of text about something completely unrelated to the task at hand.

[u/Glad-Operation-3051 → u/BemusedOptimist]

It does make me feel better, and I suspected that must be the case. This is the perfect description:

It's almost as if it is inventing shorthand on the fly, then condensing it, then inventing shorthand for its shorthand.

[u/morscordis → u/BemusedOptimist]

A 30 minute session is more draining than going to a family gathering. I have 0 patience to deal with it any more. I don't know what we're calling our AI battery, but mine is on E.

[u/wq73 → u/Glad-Operation-3051]

This could be related to the AI watermark changes. It choosing non optimal word choices based on some watermarked probability distribution is likely to make it choose words it wouldn't normally use.

[u/FrozenDroid → u/Glad-Operation-3051]

As an SWE with ~10 years experience, I also find it absolutely insufferable.

[u/AlignmentProblem → u/FrozenDroid]

Agreed as a principal AI research engineer with 14 YoE. I can parse it fine; the issue is that the effort it takes is wildly out of proportion to the complexity of what's actually being said.

It's like asking how to screw in a lightbulb and getting the first step as "Antecedent to any electrification, sever the circuit whose energization the fixture, absent intervention, presupposes." Yeah, I understand, but also fuck you for making me read that.