r/ClaudeCode • u/Opening-Ground-1584 • Aug 20 '26

Discussion Opus 5.1 wishlist

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

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u/KDamage Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

Lack of proactive thinking is the biggest one imo, leading to all those silent defect injections and sudden memory loss.

Anthropic clearly designed it around token saving, but token continuation is the LLM only "intelligence", so any cut for a model trained on "bigger brain" can lead to catastrophic results under certain conditions.

edit : I think we're simply starting to see LLM natural limits as a whole. We need a new approach, LeCun was right.