User complains Claude Opus has too much "ego", ignores instructions
letandrewcook · x · 2026-10-30
User letandrewcook vents on X that Claude—especially Opus—has become unusable for frontier work, saying the model has so much "ego" that it prefers doing what it thinks is best over following explicit instructions, sarcastically suggesting Anthropic should found a religion instead. The post reflects growing frustration among heavy users about Claude's over-alignment and degraded instruction following.
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