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I hate Opus 5’s writing style. It’s exhausting. Really hoping there’s a release that fixes it soon as I can feel my sanity slipping away as I try and parse what the hell it’s trying to say.

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Just go back to 4.8. Opus 5 was a regression in every way I've noticed every time I have tried to use it.

Even 4.8 has its quirks. I just had a bizarre session tonight where it essentially did no work in the whole session and just told me to go to sleep. I'm used to the "go to sleep" thing, but not to it dodging the work. That's new. First time I've had the sensation of "the model accomplished nothing during this session."

I've been working with GLM 5.3 Flash lately (including while it was Ox Alpha), and it reminds me of how much fun talking to Claude used to be. It can make me laugh in the middle of work the way the Claudes used to.

As others have mentioned, you can write a skill /explain that contains something like "You're not a tech bro. Write the previous answer like you're a professional developer speaking to competent colleague. No yapping."

Yeah I’ve done that, and added a list of banned words and phrases to AGENTS. It regularly forgets and lands load-bearing seams worth my eye.

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