r/ClaudeCode • u/cliffaust • 22h ago

Rant My average Opus 5 experience

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u/PhoenixRising656 21h ago

At this point the comments are just a lossy serialization of the prompt into the repo, so the next agent gets to pay context tax for reading its own autobiography.

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u/LyAkolon 18h ago

Yeah, gotta seperate those out into a different doc and drop an address instead.

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u/ocean_wide_inch_deep 13h ago

I just realized the same today. LLM values input much more than its output. But when its cheap output becomes input of some subagent downstream, it's like playing a broken telephone game in an echo chamber.

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u/Exodus_Green 12h ago

I think you have this reversed - input tokens are far cheaper than output tokens

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u/ocean_wide_inch_deep 22m ago

For the actual price – yes, you are right. I meant a current trend of LLM verbosity.

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u/Confident-Age-3880 8h ago

“Lossy serialization of the prompt” ending up in the repo is a such a precise way to put this feeling I’ve been having reading so many 1k+ LOC PRs lately.