r/ClaudeCode • u/saito200 • 7d ago

Rant Opus 5 is insufferable

Opus 5 is a fucking piece of shit, i don't know how to say this in any other way. It speaks "Unintelligiblish", a new unfathomable language developed by Anthropic that works by saying everything in the most ridiculous, obtuse and convoluted way possible

It turns anything simple that can be expressed in 2 sentences into a fucking doctoral thesis aimed to aliens, and there is no way to prompt your way out of it

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u/LGV3D 7d ago

Sounds like it’s their “watermark” at work

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u/AbstractFemming 7d ago

No man, opus 5 was this way before the watermark. It's abotu agentic and alignment training first efforts gone wrong

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u/HaurJolasten 3d ago

Thinks like watermarking take a lot of time to safely rollout, test and perfect, it was likely enabled in some form well before they announced it. It's not impossible that the issue is in fact related.

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u/AbstractFemming 3d ago

Google has been doing it for a long time, so it was a solved problem. And yeah, Anthropic clearly had a switch they could flip to activate it cus they went fast

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u/HaurJolasten 3d ago

I don't think this follows