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by dgroshev5 hours ago |
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upvoteby sashank_15095 hours ago|
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Maybe if we had a single human we talk to 24/7 at scale, we would get annoyed at his cadence and style. You need variety to not pick up on known patterns I assume, which a single model can’t replicate?
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upvoteby dgroshev5 hours ago|
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No, it's just poor writing. Actionable points are buried inside the paragraphs and over-hedged, and one point is completely made up. Compare to a five second rewrite:

* Consider leaving a comment about the hard-coded Vercel target. It's not clear where does it come from.

* [This is just a bullshit point, because the domain is not "added to" Vercel, it's provided by Vercel]

* Are you sure that [CENSORED] is prod-only? The name suggests otherwise. [also, what "if you're reviewing this rather than just reading it" even means?]

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upvoteby wren69915 hours ago|
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> also, what "if you're reviewing this rather than just reading it" even means?

It means "I'm treating you as lay-person punter, not a developer working on this project." Opus 5 feels like it's constantly trying to reward-hack me into treating it as intellectually honest and epistemically humble, while in the same breath it talks down to me and tries to smuggle its own bullshit assumptions and assertions into the conversation unchallenged. No progress on this front apparently. Glad I cancelled.

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upvoteby dgroshev5 hours ago|
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Good points, but then even this little snippet is internally inconsistent. If I'm a lay-person, why should I care that "a comment would help"?

Claude is just comically bad nowadays.

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upvoteby redox995 hours ago|
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Nah it's definitely a Claude thing. Other models even though they have their style are less annoying and less stereotypical.
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upvoteby cruffle_duffle3 hours ago|
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“It has the same annoying cadence and writing style with slightly less prominent claudisms.”

Seems like it based on my first session. It still does the whole “bury the important thing in a pile of words” coupled with the “it might actually be important” thing… so basically you never really know what it’s talking about.

Honestly I trust opus so little that the entire “opus” brand is completely tarnished. Its writing style is so god awful that it needs more than just a point release. Either dump the name and ship a different model entirely or at minimum call it “opus 6”. Calling it 5.5 makes it sound like it’s basically a continuation of the same garbage output that 5.1 had but with some minor adjustments. And based on my single first test, that is what it appears like to me.

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