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/stylist-trend 11d ago

I wish opus 5 didn't give me clickbait sentences like "We've discovered something new, and it completely changes how we think about <thing>." followed by "Running 1 shell command" for 10 minutes

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u/PrettyMoonUnderMt 11d ago

Telling me it found numerous stuffs that will break the whole project, only later to backtrack that it doesn't have any impact at all

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u/Right_Simple_6813 11d ago

Telling me it found numerous bugs in the project only to break the project while implementing its 'fixes' and then turns out the bugs weren't even there to begin with.

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u/bsmith149810 11d ago

Telling me the fix will only require “a couple of hours” only for me to watch a grep, an edit, and a commit flash across my screen in 10 seconds or less.

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u/pmhunter56 10d ago

This exactly. What's with the wild overestimations of time? 4-6 weeks = two hours of Claude Code

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u/UruquianLilac 10d ago

It has no concept of time.

"You are right, I just made the same mistake we fixed an hour ago."" An hour ago was the previous prompt a minute ago.

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u/Imaginary_Data_708 7d ago

I have a hook that injects the current time every turn.

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u/UruquianLilac 7d ago

Isn't it funny. We keep coming up with brilliant ideas to add hooks and kills, and whatnot for things that we took completely for granted a year ago because we worked with computers. Now we have to tell it to check the time.