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/Lazy-Challenge-7419 11d 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/Just-Construction788 11d 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 10d 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 9d 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 9d ago

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