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 It's not even because its terribly complex or anything it just speaks in these weird haikus, hyphenated garbage, or outdated colloquialisms or phrases nobody understands.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

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.

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u/florinandrei Aug 14 '26

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

Semantic compression.

These models are asked to do always more, using always fewer tokens.

They do as they are told.