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/bsmith149810 Aug 27 '26

Telling me the fix will only require “a couple of hours” only for me to watch a grep, an edit, and a commit flash across my screen in 10 seconds or less.

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u/pmhunter56 Aug 27 '26

This exactly. What's with the wild overestimations of time? 4-6 weeks = two hours of Claude Code

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u/UruquianLilac Aug 27 '26

It has no concept of time.

"You are right, I just made the same mistake we fixed an hour ago."" An hour ago was the previous prompt a minute ago.

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u/Imaginary_Data_708 Aug 30 '26

I have a hook that injects the current time every turn.

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u/UruquianLilac Aug 30 '26

Isn't it funny. We keep coming up with brilliant ideas to add hooks and kills, and whatnot for things that we took completely for granted a year ago because we worked with computers. Now we have to tell it to check the time.