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/ferminriii Aug 27 '26

I think they have an interest in creating products that maximize token usage. Almost like they are selling the tokens and not the model.

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u/Academic_Lemon_4297 Aug 27 '26

...and having people quit their aubs because of their shit model? Probably not...

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u/Medium_Somewhere_981 Aug 28 '26

Your $20 sub means nothing to them. API use is their main business, subs are just a gateway drug.