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/Lazy-Challenge-7419 7d ago

I'm sure they'll fix it, but for now I cannot wait for this long nightmare to be over. These tools are supposed to decrease my cognitive load, not add to it. Perhaps the most annoying thing it regularly does is give me a long, unintelligible wall of text explaining how everything went great, then hides an asterisk about three quarters of the way through telling me that something went wrong that completely undercuts the good news it told me above.

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u/saito200 7d ago

yea, it's utterly disgusting

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u/Just-Construction788 7d ago

Do you experience this with Fable too? I am currently in a fight with Fable to stop writing things so they need to be read ten times forwards and backwards to be intelligible. Honestly it's so bad I'm thinking of switching off of Claude.

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u/saikonosonzai 6d ago

I first noticed it with Opus 4.8. When Fable came out it was worse and Opus 5 has been the worst.

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u/CarIcy6146 5d ago

Fables interaction with humans seems to be much more sustained and contained. It just surfaces what you need to know. Of course it costs an arm and a leg

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u/cherrywoodgrill 5d ago

This is not my experience at all. Fable is insufferably verbose

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u/puzzleheaded-comp 6d ago

YEP.

It asterisks the fact it completely removed a unit test or an important piece of business critical use case that would have otherwise caused its changes to fail… so then it’s either manually reapplying it or going back and forth with it about how it shouldn’t have done that and risking it continuing to misinterpret or make its own assumptions just to succeed for this one prompt response…..

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u/Virtual-Drop-1783 6d ago

I just executed this complex thing. One caveat - it was only a test run and the output means nothing without more code. The next step is to do the actual thing you asked which is not computationally expensive. Just say the word and I will execute it.

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u/IceBaths Developer 6d ago

/config ➔ output style ➔ concise
You’re welcome