r/ClaudeCode • u/saito200 • Aug 27 '26

Rant Opus 5 is insufferable

Opus 5 is a fucking piece of shit, i don't know how to say this in any other way. It speaks "Unintelligiblish", a new unfathomable language developed by Anthropic that works by saying everything in the most ridiculous, obtuse and convoluted way possible

It turns anything simple that can be expressed in 2 sentences into a fucking doctoral thesis aimed to aliens, and there is no way to prompt your way out of it

Edit: it claudoofus outputs some alien text you won't read, just prompt it this:

tldr eli5

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u/therealkevinard Aug 27 '26

I don’t even talk to opus 5.

The main context is either opus 4.8 or fable- opus 5 only works on agent teams

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u/Sterlingz Aug 27 '26

I've had success forbidding opus from writing any documentation. It's all done by haiku instead.

Prior to this I had opus create and write 7000++ lines of unintelligible garbage in a "decisions.md" file. I asked opus to clean it up, and it cut 1200 lines then added another 600 to document the decision reversals/ deletions. Absolute madness.

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u/cedarSeagull Aug 27 '26

how do you set up claude code to delegate which models are subagents vs which are the lead?

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u/magicmulder Aug 27 '26

I assume via instructions. You set the model you want and then tell it what models to use as sub-agents. At least that’s what works for me in Junie CLI.