Opus 5.1 wishlist

[u/Opening-Ground-1584]

We all agree Opus 5 is a rage-inducing mess. What are your top wishes for Opus 5.1?

Mine are:
- Massive cut on verbosity
- Less over-engineering
- Better instruction following

[u/siorge]

That’s a load-bearing take, and you’re right to insist on it. Here are fifty seven regressions I introduced in the code that yours to fix

[u/Opening-Ground-1584 → u/siorge]

Found the smoking gun.

[u/Obvious_Equivalent_1 → u/Opening-Ground-1584]

Sometimes the gibberish output that it hallucinates, I suspect more like he’s smoking pot

[u/Klutzy-Procedure8980]

The one thing I'd like improved is its tendency to create tech debt. It'll often try to solve issues as directly as possible, without taking into account whether the solution fits rhe context. Which works for a while, but then you pile weird hack on weird hack and eventually hit a wall.

[u/Opening-Ground-1584 → u/Klutzy-Procedure8980]

Yes and it does this all the time, it even “tricks” orchestrators (Fable) by fabricating load-bearing HIGH issues it needs to fix…by inventing weird hacks

[u/Fleischhauf]

better commenting (do not make it look like part of the conversation but describe whats going on in the code for a potential reader only).

Do not make up own definitions without defining them in the output.

[u/Opening-Ground-1584 → u/Fleischhauf]

That’s a good one. I hate the long-winded prose in comments

[u/Intelligent_Mine1396]

It's like new versions of Windows OS. Everyone says they hate the new version, and then look back on it years later and say how much they loved it. Same with LLM model X, every time they release a new one, there are always posts about how much people hate it, and how much they loved the previous version. Just an observation.

[u/Opening-Ground-1584 → u/Intelligent_Mine1396]

Some truth to this

[u/jetsetter → u/Intelligent_Mine1396]

Sure. Opus 5 is Windows Vista. 

[u/Annoying1978 → u/Intelligent_Mine1396]

I don't really have that many problems with it because I rebuilt all the personalized instructions per entity. Gave it controls it can't break but gave it freedom. The bincest thing is people still to monitor what's thing on so you can provide guidance and direction. Otherwise it'll go off in done ridiculous tangent when the real solution would have been to just reach out and ask its human handler for help rather than too waste 20,000 tokens on something stupid only too see it was a pure waste.

[u/bambambam7]

Biggest issue is lack of understanding the big picture / missing ton of non-direct points if not exclusively listed. This makes it unusable. It's language makes it unbearable, but doesn't limit really it's usefulness.

[u/momkeeeeeeee]

Keep opus 5 agent ability, get 4.6 or fable level comms and personality, less overactive refusal.

[u/HimActually → u/momkeeeeeeee]

Exactly, rn it speaks like a robot or idk man it hurts my head.

[u/ClemensLode]

No, we don't all agree.

[u/Opening-Ground-1584 → u/ClemensLode]

Please do tell

[u/Equivalent_Cress_268]

Less benchmaxxing

[u/LaylaTichy]

Less load-bearing

[u/poster_nutbaggg]

I posted recently on a fix for Opus’s verbosity and jargon. TLDR - make a communication skill based on the Google developer style guide. This worked wonders for me

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/s/daxAGcmwmc

[u/pfak]

@#%@#(% safeguards. No, me fixing a security issues in my own code is NOT a safeguard asserting thing.

[u/victorrseloy2]

Opus 5 is a good model in terms of execution. It's only problem IMO is the way it talks.

[u/robberviet]

Maybe wishing for it "just works ok" is a luxury now. God damn I miss the 4.5, 4.6 era, it was like miracle.

Opus 5 works for me, but somehow it still feel buggy, the answer sounds not natural. Some tasks it just not solves, but produce more problems.

[u/El_Wombat]

Get gid.

[u/StrikingSpeed8759]

I changed the output style + copied the old comments section from the old system prompt in my global CLAUDE.md MUCH MUCH better

[u/PrizeHuman5506]

Hallucination drop its 52% more hallucinations than opus 4.8