Opus 5 Long Sessions Produce Unreadable Output; Dev Fixes with Output Style Rules
ukanwat · reddit · 2026-08-15
A developer complains that Opus 5's output becomes unreadable in long sessions, filled with jargon like 'load-bearing' and 'blast radius', assuming the reader knows the codebase. He tried setting rules in claude.md but it didn't work well, so he used output style and a hook to block those phrases, open-sourcing the tool claudesplain.
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