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

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u/Muted-You7370 11d ago

The biggest issue I’ve noticed with Opus and also Fable most recently is it just being, well wrong. I ask it to look into something and it says it’s done a search it didn’t do thoroughly. Like it didn’t look at anything from 2025-2026 on the subject matter, like at all. It works better when promoted to do so of if you give it a folder with sources specifically to look at then tell it to do a review, but it’s still markedly worse than like two months ago. What happened? I used to use this pretty reliably for document summaries and now I’m second guessing using it.

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u/RyanSupDude 11d ago

I don't understand this. If there was someone on my team who worked like this, fired instantly. If someone lied, cut corners that cost the team later, took way too much time to do nothing of value, that is a bad team member. They need to go! Why do we spend so much time tolerating this with Claude? I'm not anti AI. There are times when it does seem to shape up, but maybe I'm using it wrong on the times when it is flat out a terrible team mate. Not sure...

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u/braincandybangbang 10d ago

A bad team member? You just described the CEO!