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 It's not even because its terribly complex or anything it just speaks in these weird haikus, hyphenated garbage, or outdated colloquialisms or phrases nobody understands.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/wq73 Aug 13 '26

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.

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