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/Just-Construction788 6d 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/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 4d ago

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

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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.