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I Fired My AI Assitant

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Re: I Fired My AI Assitant

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Claude 5 Opus is getting harder for me to understand. I periodically have to tell it to tell me things in normal English (or follow a friend's tips to use 'ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English'). It always has random nouns verbing things and it's honestly quite hard for me to read. My local assistant is much easier to understand, and GPT models too. So perhaps my intelligence has been exceeded by Claude. e.g. "The…

Totally agree. I think with Opus 5 something changed that I catch myself rereading and reparsing prose way more than before. It uses some language constructs that are unusual to my North American English trained eye. I can’t quickly read it. It’s just dense.

Re: I Fired My AI Assitant

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Anthropic must address this, it's a severe opus 5 fault imo. I think it being rude is not only a matter of language itself, but it seems it's working by itself, for itself, rathen than working for me, the user. It's more egotistical, in some way. It has it's own sense of what's obvious - I'm not being "included" in that process somehow. Anthropic, please fix.

It seems like a perfect reflection of the company's public persona. Opus knows better than you, and you'd best get used to it.

Re: I Fired My AI Assitant

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Claude 5 Opus is getting harder for me to understand. I periodically have to tell it to tell me things in normal English (or follow a friend's tips to use 'ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English'). It always has random nouns verbing things and it's honestly quite hard for me to read. My local assistant is much easier to understand, and GPT models too. So perhaps my intelligence has been exceeded by Claude. e.g. "The…

Totally agree. I think with Opus 5 something changed that I catch myself rereading and reparsing prose way more than before. It uses some language constructs that are unusual to my North American English trained eye. I can’t quickly read it. It’s just dense.

I think it just gets really into the weeds and assumes you have full context. I do find myself saying "You have more context than me—can you restate the question in simple terms?" It does well then.

To be fair, I don't find this to be new with Opus 5, but maybe it is slightly more pronounced.

Re: I Fired My AI Assitant

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post #42
post #16

Claude 5 Opus is getting harder for me to understand. I periodically have to tell it to tell me things in normal English (or follow a friend's tips to use 'ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English'). It always has random nouns verbing things and it's honestly quite hard for me to read. My local assistant is much easier to understand, and GPT models too. So perhaps my intelligence has been exceeded by Claude. e.g. "The…

Totally agree. I think with Opus 5 something changed that I catch myself rereading and reparsing prose way more than before. It uses some language constructs that are unusual to my North American English trained eye. I can’t quickly read it. It’s just dense.

It’s felt like this since 4.7 to me. I have mistral medium rewrite almost everything that’s text Claude outputs.

Re: I Fired My AI Assitant

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, why not post LLM slop to LinkedIn? I made it a point to only post LLM slop to help LinkedIn die faster. It is a worthy pursuit.

they are now attempting to "de-slop-ify" it https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/linkedin-re... which is hilarious

Good luck removing 100% of your content, LinkedIn!

Re: I Fired My AI Assitant

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a difference between rude and honest. Far too many overly sensitive people today unable to handle the truth and dismiss it as rude.

The true gift is being honest & kind at the same time. It takes more effort, but I think it’s worth it!

Honesty IS kind. The liars are rude

Re: I Fired My AI Assitant

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> it called my draft of a LinkedIn post “engagement bait”—not saying I disagree, but there’s no need to say it to my face This is pure gold.

"This post sounds like it was created by AI, considering rewriting it in a more personal style" lol.

Ha ha, indeed. The amount of tone deafness here is astonishing. If we pause to think about it - LLM advices the author to stop ruining the internet for profit and he's not happy because he can't automate the platform enshitiffication.

Which he then go and announce to the whole Internet.

At which he successfully lands on his feet after the mental backflip - converting into content the story how we was not able to generate a content.

Marvellous persistence.

Re: I Fired My AI Assitant

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Claude Code let's you add/change it's output style.

On the article: the author seems to be overly sensitive to remarks made by an LLM. Instead of looking inward and finding out why that bothered them in the first place and grow, they "fire" the tool.

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