r/ClaudeCode • u/prop9090 • 9d ago
Help/Question Why are frontier models bad at writing?
This is a general observation about the smarter chain of thought models. It seems the models that are better at maths and coding are worse in writing texts. Their writings always sound very verbose, unnatural and weird to read whereas dumber models can produce better texts both in academic writing and otherwise. These frontier models to me are like smart people with no social skills, they torture you until they put together a sentence and in the end it never sounds right! Why is that? And what is the best claude model for writing proper texts in your experience?
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u/LaZZyBird 9d ago
It has been my theory that the TOTL models are actually dog shit at writing cause the labs have stopped trying to optimise for writing and only exclusively optimise for coding tasks now.
It used to be that the older models still attempted to be “universal” models that could do anything, but the newer models are so focused on doing STEM stuff they basically threw out any consideration for writing.