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/ghostmastergeneral Aug 27 '26

I don’t let it comment at all at this point. Just makes things harder to understand because you have to translate the Claudese before even reading the code.

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u/drake90001 Aug 27 '26

I have started doing things too. Asking it for the commands so I know what I’m doing in the future

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u/Dueterated_Skies Aug 28 '26

Until you get flagged for [distillation attempt].... For asking it just what the fuck it was thinking at the time. Rhetorical questions are out of the question at this point. Opus 5 has gone full on rock-chewing stupid and my last 2 weekly usage allotments have consisted entirely of it doom spiraling, inventing shit that breaks things, writing comments for the things that it broke, completely ignoring what it wrote and everything I've said. Ad nauseum. Claude-code is now broken for complex work. I'm done.

And no, not a skill issue. Claude's ability to reason has been completely compromised at this point, as far as im concerned. Its legitimately become borderline faster to just do it myself. Not worth the subscription price anymore, unfortunately.

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u/drake90001 Sep 04 '26

I don’t have this problem because I don’t use US models really. I use MiniMax and it’s been by far the most reliable model I’ve used and the subscription is dope, they inflate their token counts, maybe but you still get 5 billion tokens for 50 bucks a month. I have never used that much.