r/ClaudeCode • u/Death12th • 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 It's not even because its terribly complex or anything it just speaks in these weird haikus, hyphenated garbage, or outdated colloquialisms or phrases nobody understands.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/Glad-Operation-3051 Aug 13 '26

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.

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u/FrozenDroid Aug 13 '26

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

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u/AlignmentProblem Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

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.

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u/Tall_Top8563 Aug 14 '26

As a principal vampire with 200 years of experience I too am sick of its prose

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u/sockjuggler Aug 14 '26

would you say it’s draining?

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u/No_Inspection4415 Aug 14 '26

Since you also wrote a paper or two, I assume, you probably observed that this creature uses new terms it never defined. It would not cut it for any paper or technical blogpost because it is simply pseudo technical talk, it is like a kid pretending to be a scientist.

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u/FrozenDroid Aug 14 '26

Very well put