| ▲ | aurareturn 4 hours ago |
| Opus 5 and Fable 5 were unbearable in their writing style. They were very cryptic and hard to understand. Opus 5.5 is a massive improvement. |
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| ▲ | PetahNZ 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Opus 5.5 went back to the old writing style a few days ago. |
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| ▲ | jojva 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I had the same feeling. It's like every sentence becomes a struggle to parse: referencing things that haven't been introduced, using too many pronouns, the lack of verbs and the passive tense... These past few days it's felt more like Opus 5.1 than 5.5. | |
| ▲ | LtdJorge 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yep, its prose is getting really bad | |
| ▲ | r1ch 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I just had Claude Code with "Opus 5.5" ignore one of my standing instructions for the first time and then proceed to generate an Opus 5 style verbose and barely readable commit message. I questioned it about Fable and Mythos and it has no idea what those were, yet they should have been in the Opus 5.5 knowledge cutoff. On the web with both high and xhigh, it had knowledge of both. |
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| ▲ | stillpointlab 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I really didn't like Opus 5 and was vocal about it. Opus 5.5 is noticeably better, but literally just yesterday I was fighting parsing some summary it had given me and it was a bit like the old days. IOW, it is better but still has some room to improve. |
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| ▲ | kccoder 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You can easily change its writing style: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/output-styles You can also customize further by putting notes in your global MD. |
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| ▲ | Narushia an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | In my experience, no amount of output style customization gets it anywhere near the output I'd like. I've had more success running a prose linter[1] with a ruleset[2] that gets rid of most of the egregious stuff. You can also pretty easily write custom rules for it. And sometimes, when I'm fed up enough, I just throw all the prose in the codebase at Antigravity/Gemini to rephrase. The result is so much more readable. [1]: https://vale.sh/ [2]: https://github.com/tbhb/vale-ai-tells | |
| ▲ | hungryhobbit 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You can change it ... and Claude will maybe pay attention to what you changed 25% of the time. | |
| ▲ | MallocVoidstar 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | "You can tell an AI model to write in a different style" and "the AI model will actually write in the style you tell it to" are two different things that often don't intersect |
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| ▲ | winfredJa 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| opus 5.5 is still unbearable but better than 5. |
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