User rants on Claude's style degradation and Opus 5 laziness
coocoocoo8956 · reddit · 2026-08-18
A long-term Claude user discusses the perceived degradation in Claude's output style, specifically 'Claudish' (verbose, weird cadence) and Opus 5's tendency to split tasks arbitrarily and add unnecessary notes. Despite these issues, the user argues Claude remains hyper-productive and questions why others would switch models. They also speculate the style changes might be designed to maximize token usage for profit.
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