alt Hacker NewsAmen. I would trade some stupidity (say ten points on any benchmark) in exchange for a version of Opus or a similar model that actually gave me direct, concise answers.
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atishaykumar • today at 6:23 PM
You can possibly give instructions on how to respond to your questions.
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You should try setting claude code to opus 4.6. With the style instructions I set in my user CLAUDE.md it does exactly that. It's like night and day: Opus 5 gave me a page and a half of word-vomit, yet the exact same task and prompt with 4.6 and I got maybe 100-150 words total, entirely readable.