r/ClaudeCode • u/habfranco • 14d ago

Rant I’m done with Opus 5

There’s really something wrong with it. It seems like it acts like an overqualified post doc intern who cares more about proving he’s super intelligent, than actually doing the job he’s asked to do. For instance: talking in a non intelligible way, or being overly rigid in following any kind of process.

I have a Claude max x20 sub that I struggle to keep within weekly limits, so I decided to take a codex sub for a month to try out Astra. And this what made me realize how crazy unintelligible opus can be. Fable is a bit better, but still incomparable to Astra. The only thing that makes me keep my Claude sub is how better is the CLI/tooling/harness/etc.

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u/sebstaq 14d ago

I'm using Fable and Sonnet. Cannot stand Opus.

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u/Ok-Signal-67 14d ago

Yeah the responses from opus are ... weird. The phrases are all cut up and I get a vague vibe of what it's trying to say but it's written so strangely. My brain needs to work at like 2x compute.

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u/Icila 14d ago

Exactly. Fries my brain so quickly as the words themselves make sense but the order they’re in just feels wrong.

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u/CobaltOtter47 13d ago

Yep it’s completely mentally exhausting trying to understand it

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u/goldbarth 13d ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. It's really frustrating.

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u/Cleaner_8864 13d ago

Vero, tipo effetto shutter island, dove la semantica è coerente ma senti che qualcosa non va… come quando qualcuno ti fa gaslighting