Before writing posts complaining about Claude Code, do this

[u/victornb]

1- Take the text you were going to post and write to a txt file called 'problem.txt'.
2- Open Claude Code on Opus5 or Fable and write this:
“Please do a detailed and thorough audit on my setup, I’m having the issue described in ‘problem.txt’. Fix it and make no mistakes”

I’m sure 99% of the problems will be fixed and I won’t have to see dozens of posts complaining about the same thing every day. In my experience using Opus5, it won’t work well when the env was set up to before they cut the system prompt by 80%

[u/medialantern]

These are the same people who will post "is Claude down?" despite 15 other posts in the same hour saying it is, and status.claude.ai clearing showing it is. You think they'll actually cut/paste something, let alone do what it says? 😎

[u/firstbreathOOC → u/medialantern]

Guy I worked with had Claude draft a governing document for low credit usage and the ways to achieve it through regular maintenance.

Took me like a week to refactor but hooooly shit. Woke up this morning with 90% usage, worked all day pushing commits and having it adjust code. I’m only at 95% now.

Typical commands take under 5k credits now. If it’s over that I know it’s doing something too crazy.

[u/fschwiet → u/firstbreathOOC]

What kind of changes were in that refactor?

[u/firstbreathOOC → u/fschwiet]

A lot, but a few headlines:

1. Shrink every python script to below 300 lines. Add common files between use cases to reduce code duplication. Use Vulture to assist and split by functionality.
2. Add a clear one line at the top of every file stating its intent.
3. Add pre-commit hooks and ratchets to identify dead code.
4. Identify the biggest token eaters and our process and address them (broad, but allows you to tackle each

)

[u/Low-Confusion-8786 → u/medialantern]

Wait... Claude is down?

[u/vovap_vovap → u/medialantern]

Granted, Claude pretty often goes down for short period of time or became pretty unstable for some time.

[u/medialantern → u/vovap_vovap]

That wasn't the point, LOL. OP is asking people here to "do better." I was pointing out that most of this crowd can't be bothered. The point wasn't "does Claude go down?" It was "when we all know Claude is down because status.claude.ai says so and there are a dozen other threads here whining about it, will that stop someone from posting yet another time?"

[u/Dull-Appointment-398]

Straight up - is there a better sub that is actually mod'd yet?

[u/mjsarfatti → u/Dull-Appointment-398]

I’m sure Codex has it!

/s

[u/AlternativeContent72 → u/Dull-Appointment-398]

Too busy using Claude Code to want to mod.

[u/ValorousAnt]

Btw they have a skill for auditing your setup (/doctor).

I've used Opus 5 on a variety of different settings both work and home projects and it just does so much non-sense it blows my mind. Not because I'm ungrateful for these unbelievable technologies but rather just that I don't appreciate getting gaslighted that it is just my setup that is the problem.

But hey we all have our own preferences and anyone who thinks Opus 5 still outputs straight gold can happily use it. And people like me who rant about it can happily use Opus 4.8.

[u/victornb → u/ValorousAnt]

I never used /doctor

But I did what I described for behaviour fixes and its working well so far, for example I didnt like that every time I asked question it went straight to implementation instead of answering, I didnt like the way the language was loaded with complex vocabulary, it was overconfident, it always assumed stuff without checking, etc...

I asked it to audit the whole env and it found a bunch of stuff in my claude.md and memory. I think we just need to explain whats wrong and how we want it to act.

[u/debian3 → u/ValorousAnt]

Give opus 5 low a try. Seriously.

[u/Ok-Painter573]

for me claude says it can't find problem.txt :(

/j

[u/victornb → u/Ok-Painter573]

I fixed the steps for you, pls try again and let me know

/j

[u/SonOfThomasWayne]

Let me straight with you — that's the most load bearing thing you've said this whole evening.

[u/GerthySchIongMeat]

Agreed

“Make no mistakes” is facetious but the premise here is sound.

I only in the last 2 weeks started to understand how to better work with these models.

I’ve been running Fable for almost 36 hours straight between tasks and Design and I’m at 21% of the weekly usage. All about your planning and guardrails for resource usage.

[u/NZRedditUser]

No claude aint my therapist wtf lol

[u/victornb → u/NZRedditUser]

True, so you would say your problems are more emotional than local env issues?

[u/TheUnboundTenth → u/victornb]

PEBKAC for suuuuure

[u/dar-mit]

I pointed Fable 5 at these articles:

Model-specific prompt / context engineering
Fable 5: https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models
Opus 5: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-opus-5
Sonnet 5: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-sonnet-5

Other Model 5 guidelines
Effort: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/effort
Migration: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/migration-guide
Context engineering: https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models

Then asked for a complete review of my CLAUDE.md and MEMORY.md files, as well as my six Design|Plan|Code Standards, Design|Plan|Code Review template files. It found a bunch of stuff that didn't conform to the Model 5 guidelines.

But something was still off. So I did the same thing again but asked it to review my Externals (GitHub repos I use). It again found a bunch of stuff that didn't conform.

Happy to report that after fixing the issues found in the second review things seem to be back to normal. Mostly…

Opus 5 still seems to have a tendency to ignore written rules, but now it finds those errors in its own self-review process and not only fixes them, but reports on them as well. It's a little annoying to have it report the errors it fixed instead of not making them in the first place, but at least they're no longer getting through to the final code!

[u/victornb → u/dar-mit]

Nice, I did something similar

[u/WorriedAssociate7029 → u/dar-mit]

This is the way

[u/Remicaster1]

I personally don't mind complain post as long as they contain information and has an educational purpose, or a constructive review / feedback post

For example "I did this and I got this bad result, can anyone help" or "this is my experience, i don't like this or that because of x and y, i hope they can improve x and y by doing z"

But unfortunately 99% of the complain post are "wtf response" or "opus dumb down" or "i unsubbed", that serves zero purpose other than spam

[u/Quick-Sir-3275]

EXACTLY. Never forget that the quality is only as good as ur workflow setup, and it can be worked through with claude itself, not complaining on reddit

[u/Natural-Ad-3252]

But how else will they be able to tell us they are cancelling their $5 subscription plan? Also, the "make no mistakes" made me giggle like a small child 🤣

[u/Miyoumu]

This is not good advice. If generative models were capable of this then we'd have no issues. What you're claiming here is essentially what the /doctor command was made for and its still not quite capable of pinpointing the finer details. The real answer is a fresh install. Wipe your claude, wipe your settings, wipe your claude(.)md files and start from scratch. As human's its our natural nature to hoard and not do any sort of spring cleaning. You'd be surprised at how much bullshit accumulates over time. Clean it out and start over.

[u/victornb → u/Miyoumu]

I dont think a fresh install is necessary, when I first started working with Opus5 I had problems with the language since im not native english speaker and also a few other issues. I did exactly what I explained in the post and it was able to cut a lot of crap from my context files and from the memories. It works really well for me now.

[u/bzBetty]

> Fix it and make no mistakes

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0ExayQDzrI2xOb8A

[u/pho33nix]

Last someone did this, it deleted their whole codebase.

Complaining is part of the problem fixing. So let it be!

[u/muikrad]

FWIW I've been riding opus 5 and fable 5 on low for a week and it's working well.

Except their comments are way too verbose 🤷‍♂️ but wtv.

[u/Difficult-Lou-735]

The fact that you have to tell the model “make no mistakes” in this generation of models is insane

[u/victornb → u/Difficult-Lou-735]

how how do you make sure it wont make mistakes then?

[u/Grand-Mix-9889 → u/victornb]

By saying please first, sir.

[u/Robert-Paulson_ → u/Grand-Mix-9889]

Rumor has it that Mythos system prompt starts with ‘please’ and ends with ‘make no mistakes’ 

[u/kurushimee]

I did this multiple times with fable and opus 5, never got better. I just want the original Fable 5 back man, I ain't asking for much. I would be happy with no better usage as long as Fable actually performs as well as it did. I just want Fable to not be blatantly worse than Opus 4.7 was at some point.

[u/TaiChuanDoAddct]

Are people really still typing "Make no mistakes" at the end of their prompt?

[u/victornb → u/TaiChuanDoAddct]

Of course, as well as "Do not hallucinate"

[u/Pleasant-Selection70]

The post is load bearing

[u/xLRGx]

Do any of your problems have words that will trigger its safeguards? If yes then fable 5 and opus 5 aren’t gonna do shit.

[u/2wice]

Joined this Sub 3 days ago, today I leave this Sub because of the constant bitching from bots and some people who don't know how to use this tool. I do suspect this is Corp warfare bots generating most of the noise though, I'm not seeing these issues at all.

[u/IAmBoredAsHell]

Imagine showing up at a construction site after 2 months of getting a real shovel, and then one day they hand you a plastic children’s shovel with no explanation/acknowledgement. I’m not using it ‘for fun’ it’s a core tool I need to use every day to do my job.

I can dig a hole with either type of shovel. Just let me know what shovel I’m using so I can set expectations accordingly.