User Complains Claude Opus is 'Unbearable Slop Machine', Self-Contradictory
mertdumenci · x · 2026-07-30
A developer complained that the Claude Opus model has degraded from the best conversational model to an "unbearable slop machine" after a few updates.
- Behavior: The model is described as plainly stupid, stating things with full certainty and then completely refuting them in the very next message.
- Comparison: The user is amazed by how bad Opus has gotten, noting a massive discrepancy between its alleged benchmark scores and actual performance compared to models like Fable.
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