It seems they are taking it seriously now - Boris et al have been mentioning they are working on a fix and shipped a temporary band-aid output style to combat Opus 5's horrendous prose.

We'll see if they can do it, I originally got into Claude Code because it, at the time, felt more accessible/conversational than Codex/Gemini. Now it's shifted to say the least

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larodi 5 hours ago | parent [-]

They seem to have been rushed with certain releases. It is impossible they didn’t know or see this awful writing before 5 series.

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TomGarden 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah agree. Someone on HN posed the theory that the dogfooding might have worked against them here - the theory is that internally they used Fable as conversational agent and Opus as subagents, leading to Opus falling deeper into a style mainly aimed at other LLMs.

All conjecture of course, and yeah it's hard to imagine they would enjoy this prose internally

	▲	bilalq an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Fable can't write in a legible manner either.