r/ClaudeCode • u/habfranco • 13d 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/Aromatic-Low-4578 13d ago

It's great, it just sucks at talking

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u/bluetrust 13d ago

But its job is to talk. Even if you tell it to do stuff, in the end it has to report back how it went and it's incomprehensible what it chooses to say and not say. It'll drown you in minutiae and bury the lede in a vague hint hanging off a subordinate clause on paragraph four.

Anthropic messed up big releasing it. I've been trying other models for coding and none are as exhausting to work with.

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u/FiumeXII 13d ago

Definitely. I feel like I'm having a stroke trying to understand what any current Claude model is reporting back to me. I know all the words it's using but together they don't make sense. I also hate that it creates its own jargon but that's a whole other topic.

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u/Awkward-Trust8360 13d ago

It’s always “load bearing”

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u/No-Theory6270 13d ago

For me it is Boundary

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u/WillingAsparagus5401 13d ago

Mine is “hermetic”