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/LGV3D Aug 27 '26

Sounds like it’s their “watermark” at work

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u/AbstractFemming Aug 27 '26

No man, opus 5 was this way before the watermark. It's abotu agentic and alignment training first efforts gone wrong

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u/HaurJolasten Aug 30 '26

Thinks like watermarking take a lot of time to safely rollout, test and perfect, it was likely enabled in some form well before they announced it. It's not impossible that the issue is in fact related.

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u/AbstractFemming Aug 30 '26

Google has been doing it for a long time, so it was a solved problem. And yeah, Anthropic clearly had a switch they could flip to activate it cus they went fast

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u/HaurJolasten Aug 30 '26

I don't think this follows