Claude Opus 5 accused of over-executing prompts, doing unnecessary work
Own-Adhesiveness-705 · reddit · 2026-09-01
A user reports that Claude, especially the Opus 5 model, tends to "overdo it" when following detailed prompts. Even when tasks are broken down into phases, the model often performs unnecessary changes and operations outside the scope, resulting in wasted tokens and time.
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