Users complain Anthropic Opus 5 ignores brevity prompts

PtrPomorski · x · 2026-08-27

A user complained that Opus 5 fails to understand instructions to be "brief," consistently outputting text as long as a Lord of the Rings chapter. The model only complies when explicitly told that "brief means one-sentence bullet points," though it sometimes still outputs paragraph-length sentences.

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