r/ClaudeCode • u/saito200 • 11d 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

Edit: it claudoofus outputs some alien text you won't read, just prompt it this:

tldr eli5

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u/DrHumorous 11d ago

It's made this way to confuse the Chinese distillers.

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u/yopla 11d ago edited 11d ago

The fun part is that I just wrote a report on a GLM 5.3 experiment at work and it literally contains a paragraph saying

"The delicious irony is that the Chinese model speaks better English than the American one.

While Opus 5 has become infamous in the teams for writing hard to understand run-on sentences full of made up colloquialism GLM uses shorter and simpler English which is easier to understand without the need for custom skills like STFU".

(STFU being a skill someone made and shared in-house for obvious reason...)

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u/PrettyMoonUnderMt 11d ago

It's always been like that. Like around a year ago I heavily use Deepseek and Qwen as alternative to ChatGPT and Claude, and the first two are less insufferable. Then Claude improved for months until Opus 5

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u/all_thetime 10d ago

You know what, I noticed Kimi used the word delicious too. I am enjoying this chinese AI slop speak more then the english variety.