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Trasmattatoday at 6:26 PM3 repliesview on HN

> More work to be done (and we will!) but reading better prose makes me so much happier.

I assume this work will be done for Opus as well? Opus has seemingly gotten progressively worse at its prose and technical writing with each version. I've stopped using Claude entirely for now, because it manages to turn even the simplest technical explanation into the most obtuse and obfuscated word salad imaginable. People originally adopted Claude because it felt pleasant to use in comparison to ChatGPT, but I feel like that's really been lost (at least with the Opus line).

I feel dread when I see a wall of text generated by Opus. Every developer I've talked to feels similarly right now.


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srousseytoday at 6:29 PM

> I feel a sinking feeling of dread the moment I see a wall of text generated by Opus

Agree, Claude lost the joy of using it.

That is a measure that ranks higher than any other benchmark at this point.

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vardalabtoday at 6:36 PM

Yeah, it's like day and night. It used to be really unpleasant to interact with early codex versions. Even 5.3 wasn't great. Now, I go to Sol if I need to discuss anything. I don't even bother with Opus because I know that it's going to give me a headache.

dezgegtoday at 6:59 PM

Yeah, for all the hate Gemini gets, at least it isn't obsessed with adding comments and it's output is more readable than recent Claude's.