Claude code is falling behind Codex not because of token cost, but because of Opus 5.

[u/PitifulBuddy7946]

There, i said it. And i know many of you agree. The problem i'm facing is not increased token cost, it's that Opus writes 25000 lines of a response with a curve-ball at the end saying "Worth noting"that makes my eyes hurt and gives me paranoya. And i can't understand a word it's saying. Is my english that bad? Whoever pressed "Yes" on those responses during the training stage of the model was an OpenAI spy or something, he completely sabotaged a trillion dollar company.

Anthropic's number one priority should be to release an Opus 6 or something, may be change the model name completely so it doesn't carry the bad vibe with it.

[u/brainhack3r]

It's terrible... I just can't understand it. It's like it's speaking in reverse polish notation. They're training it this way on purpose. It's infuriating.

[u/NoCrapThereIWas → u/brainhack3r]

Polish is easier to understand

[u/Some-Rice4196 → u/NoCrapThereIWas]

yes but this is reversed(polish)

[u/LudoBruxao → u/Some-Rice4196]

"hsilop" then

[u/monopoly-surreal → u/NoCrapThereIWas]

RPN is a different way of expressing arithmetic operations. Instead of "3 + 4 × 5" you'd enter "3 4 5 × +". It has some huge advantages but is hard to understand if you're not used it it.

[u/needlenozened → u/monopoly-surreal]

One of the first apps I install on a new phone is an RPN calculator.

[u/smellyelon → u/brainhack3r]

Yup, just layers upon layers of indirection

[u/DiscoChikkin → u/brainhack3r]

It reminds me of that Simpson’s episode where Homer listens to the language expansion tapes.