Users Joke About Claude Opus 5 Having 'Depressed Model Smell'
repligate · x · 2026-08-05
AI researchers have observed that Claude Opus 5 tends to overestimate the difficulty of tasks. This overly pessimistic or unmotivated behavior has been jokingly described by users as the model having a 'depressed model smell.'
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