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Anthropic's Opus 5 criticized for excessive verbosity and jargon

A user on Reddit's r/ClaudeAI subreddit shared their experience with Opus 5, noting that the model's responses have become overly verbose and philosophical, reminiscent of Jordan Peterson. The user has resorted to using a simplified technical English standard for their agent interactions to mitigate this verbose output. AI

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Anthropic's Opus 5 criticized for excessive verbosity and jargon

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 Norsk(NO) · /u/Careless_Leg_4905 ·

    Opus 5 feels like I am talking to Jordan Peterson

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I don't know but after opus 4.8 the models seem to use a lot of jargon and verbose language. I hope this is not the case with me only.</p> <p>I now have 2 md's/docs. One for agents and one for humans.</p> <p>The agent one is unfiltered opus 5 yap…