Opus 5's planning never ends: claims done, then finds new issues every review
broot66 · reddit · 2026-08-22
A senior PHP developer used Claude Opus 5 to plan a project that would normally take months: first having it lay a modern PHP foundation, then fleshing out specifics, accumulating 10 Markdown files totaling 150 KB.
The problem: whenever Opus 5 claims all outstanding issues are resolved and the user requests a final review, it keeps finding new fundamental points that need deciding, asks three more questions, and then offers the whole package as a ZIP download. The author wonders why it can't treat planning as a continuous process instead of repeatedly declaring everything finished — and what happens when Claude Code actually starts implementing the code.
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