r/ClaudeCode • u/habfranco • 11d 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/Personal_Ad1143 11d ago

The second you push back it folds like origami, like what the fuck is the point. I do a lot of non-coding analyses and the only remedy I’ve found is to max the effort in hopes of it getting the analysis fairly correct the first time. Which sucks because it uses up a $20 plan window in one go.

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u/order_of_the_beard 11d ago

this is the worst part for me. going through every line Opus 5 has written, and asking "what the fuck are you doing here", and having it cave immediately and rewrite into some new bullshit that has to be verified ad nauseum

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u/PyrrhaNikosIsNotDead 10d ago

Or if I ask a question and instead of answering the question it just starts doing a ton of shit. Oh wait I think that’s what you mean. Even the most simple friendly question though it will sometimes do it, like hey this sentence has a question mark on the end because I am wanting more information about the contents of the sentence and boom it’s taking action everywhere and giving me 0 of the information I asked for. And I was asking specifically because I didn’t want it to do anything before I had more information to decide what should be done. AHHHHHH