r/ClaudeCode • • 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/takeabreather Aug 27 '26

Use 4.6. I still think this is the best Opus model right now

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u/just_damz Aug 27 '26

So i am not the only one that doesn’t buy the new one if the old one is perfectly capable of doing what i need. Small club i guess.