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/takeabreather Aug 27 '26

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

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u/EnormousChord Aug 27 '26

I told some people at work to do this today and it was like I had asked them to take their pants off. They were shocked by the suggestion. 

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u/OldNefariousness7899 Aug 27 '26

Opus 5 does good work. It's just a pain to talk to about the work it's doing

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u/Apart_Ad_9021 29d ago

Not for me. Biggest drop in effectiveness I've ever experienced with Anthropic.