It's not even code for me, but the prose it writes. For some reason, the way Opus 5 "talk" elicits frustration in a way that 4.5 to 4.8 never did. Can't put my finger on why, but I've flipped over to Codex because what it produced wasn't worth the frustration.

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jbs789 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I found myself swearing at it more recently.

It was going off today about having “shipped” something and I was like no… nothing has even been committed.

And then it produced an incredibly verbose comment about hypothetical future changes. And all I could think was sure, let’s keep it short, or add a simple test that will break if that hypothetical becomes true.

Or maybe I’m just more easily annoyed recently…

	▲	superdisk 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		So true. The breaking point for me was when it was constantly saying to wrap up because we'd done enough work for the day, but we had barely even done anything. Or constantly estimating that the next steps would take X number of weeks, and then knock it out in a single prompt. I demanded in no uncertain terms to stop giving pointless bogus estimates or telling me to stop working, and it just wouldn't. I also had a project I wanted to let it cook on overnight (a codebase port from Java to C++) and laid out a set of hard and fast rules that it could absolutely not break at any cost. Then I woke up the next day and it had broken all the rules and was just taking shortcuts left and right, and then lying to my face about it, even when I could point to concrete examples. I cancelled the sub instantly and went to Codex and it's never let me down.

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thr0w 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is rage inducing.

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netniuq 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

for me it feels very similar to the trends already apparent in 4.5-4.8, just way, way worse.