Miles Brundage says Opus 5 is good but unusually verbose, raising questions about reasoning settings
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-07-25
Miles Brundage says Opus 5 feels good but noticeably verbose, often spending a lot of tokens.
He says he is confused by the whole idea of “overthinking” as a real phenomenon and asks what reasoning settings people are supposed to use in light of that.
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