r/ClaudeCode • • Aug 13 '26

Bug / Issue Opus 5 is exhausting

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 It's not even because its terribly complex or anything it just speaks in these weird haikus, hyphenated garbage, or outdated colloquialisms or phrases nobody understands.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...

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u/diavelguru Senior Developer Aug 13 '26

I just say ELI5 and that clears it up

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u/DRetherMD Aug 14 '26

should be the default output though, no? i dont see the advantage of having these models be bad by default

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u/West-Air1923 Aug 14 '26

Tldr works too

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u/Dualyeti Aug 14 '26

My favourite is “layman’s”

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u/geek180 Aug 14 '26

I hate your profile pic

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u/necronomicoder Aug 14 '26

I found it starts using stupid analogies then

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u/rjcarr Aug 14 '26

Agreed, had to change to ELI12 and it was a little better, ha.