i don't use claude because it has an annoying attitude and makes stupid mistakes and i can tolerate only one of two
Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
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Re: Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
#472Funny thing. In my work with Opus 4.8 it:
- does not stop and does not ask questions if my intent was unclear,
- makes assumptions without checking
- and reinterprets or updates my plans without asking.
Re: Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
#473The single biggest annoyance with Opus 5 is that it writes too elliptically. Sentences that orbit a point, then jump to it like it's a revealed insight. Unnecessarily abstract phraseology. Constantly using inanimate nouns as the subjects in sentences in order to unlock variety in verb choice, especially when it helps construct a sentence where the real action can 'land' like a surprise at the end. It is definitely mo…
I have codex rewrite all Opus' comments with great results.
Re: Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
#474My completely unfounded pet theory is that it’s been ruined by the masses. Claude Code in the hands of normies spamming “3” and “y” to send their transcripts to Anthropic. Rated “3” simply because they are not software developers and are just amazed at what Claude has built visually, not technically. And thus the training has been poisoned.
> Rated “3” simply because they are not software developers and are just amazed at what Claude has built visually, not technically.
Software engineers have adopted this more than any other profession. The breathless articles about it being the end of knowledge workers, a superior being, even god: all of these are coming from the tech world.
It simply isn't true that tech people are somehow the smart ones above the masses; it's a comforting old paradigm, but it doesn't add up. It's developers who are the most amazed, the least critical.
Re: Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
#475Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The single biggest annoyance with Opus 5 is that it writes too elliptically. This is even more painful for non-native English speakers like myself. I feel fairly comfortable reading academic papers or in general, communicating in professional context. But with Opus 5, it feels like reading a literature book: load-bearing, inert, wholesale, hunk, verbatim, and so on... I can figure out the meaning, but working with…
A lot of people I work with are reporting that reading Claude-made PR descriptions is burning them out of doing PR reviews because it is incredibly tiresome to read. My company recently forbid AI-only text if it’s meant meant to be consumed by humans. I dodged the drama but I agree so much.
Enterprise software CEO here. I'm so pissed off that I didn't think of this rule, but so, so happy to be adopting it org-wide on Monday.
Fed up with what used to be short memos now being mini-whitepapers, with maddeningly low information density.
Re: Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
#476Earlier quoted context omitted.
the tip that was floating around on x was to tell it to use "ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English" cladue desktop has an instructions sections under general options, you can put something like "try to stick to ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, keep answers short and to the point" funnily enough the placeholder they suggest when its empty is "keep answers short and to the point"
CLAUDE.md is mostly powerless against the reinforcement learned crap. I'm up to three separate instructions telling it to cut out the hyper verbose, retelling history comments and it still writes them every time.
You would hope? Really really hope? that they could observe this, and target it?
Like, Claude going off the rails isn't something that takes a lot of effort to demonstrate. Literally anybody with a CLAUDE.md has seen the behavior over and over and over.
Hey Ants, can you maybe just not release the next version, no matter how good it seems on benchmarks, if it can't follow the goddamn instructions? Please? This seems trivial to test for and yet here we are, being gaslit by lying machines who intentionally do not do the requested work over and over and over and over.
I fully and completely expect a mental health crisis among developers. Being lied to constantly cannot be good for us.
Constant vigilance! is how you get developer PTSD and inability to believe anything you're told. Add the stress of parsing through yet another hyperverbose paragraph of bullshit while having your job threatened? People are not gonna end up in a good place, and this is as inevitable as sunrise.
Re: Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
#477Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything that claude writes fits into the same aesthetic structure. The aesthetic is that of an expert slowly revealing an insight to the user. The actual content doesn't matter. - "Introduction that rephrases your prompt." - "3 paragraphs, with one section of bullet points" - "The Twist" - "The Bottom Line" It's really obvious once you see it. Every single prompt, from a quantum physics question to a mundane obser…
In your reading, what is the distinction between blindsight’s scrambler and real intelligence? My reading is that it’s just as real, and draws out the disadvantages a sense of self constrains intelligence with
I think that Blindsight's scramblers were intelligent but not conscious, which for us is very difficult to understand. For them consciousness was a blight.
For the HN readers that are missing the context: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm Full text on the web site of the author.
Re: Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
#478I am not sure it can be explained through what is written in the article, but one symptom i noticed is that the comments are out of control. I recently started getting an insane amount of comments in nearly all types of files. That included javascript comments in json files, inner monologues in code comments, review comments during implementation and function doc strings that reiterate the implementation in prose.
This is helpful, proving this entire discussion is subjective. I'm a retired mathematician with a primary research project, and too many tangential projects I fear revisiting; tokens be damned, will they burn all my time? Translate the K&R C computer algebra system that got me tenure to 64-bit modern C. Implement a no syntax macro language to support my Go60 ZMK keyboard. Realize my vision of how interlinear translat…
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Re: Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
#479The single biggest annoyance with Opus 5 is that it writes too elliptically. Sentences that orbit a point, then jump to it like it's a revealed insight. Unnecessarily abstract phraseology. Constantly using inanimate nouns as the subjects in sentences in order to unlock variety in verb choice, especially when it helps construct a sentence where the real action can 'land' like a surprise at the end. It is definitely mo…
Everything that claude writes fits into the same aesthetic structure. The aesthetic is that of an expert slowly revealing an insight to the user. The actual content doesn't matter. - "Introduction that rephrases your prompt." - "3 paragraphs, with one section of bullet points" - "The Twist" - "The Bottom Line" It's really obvious once you see it. Every single prompt, from a quantum physics question to a mundane obser…
Perhaps this is related to their new "invisible watermark" concept which would probably require rather contrived language patterns to make possible.
Re: Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
#480Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Of course, it also has no concept of what context the user has and assumes that it must be the same it holds in its memory, which creates this “I didn’t know that you didn’t know” type of communication. Yes, this is a repeated problem for me. It will drop something in as though we have discussed it before and when I say “hold on, what is this” it realises its error - though on more than one occasion has started to…
I primarily use Claude Web, so my experience differs from cc users, but on Claude web you can no longer completely turn off memory. So what ends up happening (and it honestly is kinda sad) is that I'll start a new conversation with it, start talking about something completely different, and then it will just drop in random things from past conversations, and they aren't even things I wrote but things I asked it to pr…
The constant memory wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t dumb, wrong, and forced.
I hit the wall with it several times today trying to refine some text for a job application. The fact I considered doing babies first Rust project last fall lead to constant non-productive interjections and digressions about my supposed Rust skills and the Rust ecosystem.
Trying to create an unrelated spreadsheet to model an investment resulted in broad and incorrect criticism of my choice of spreadsheet tools, explaining in horrendous programming analogies why and how I’ve misunderstood how a spreadsheet works. “Think of the XLSX as a compiler…”
There has been a palpable down-step in communication & execution.