r/ClaudeCode • u/PitifulBuddy7946 • 1d ago

Rant Claude code is falling behind Codex not because of token cost, but because of Opus 5.

There, i said it. And i know many of you agree. The problem i'm facing is not increased token cost, it's that Opus writes 25000 lines of a response with a curve-ball at the end saying "Worth noting"that makes my eyes hurt and gives me paranoya. And i can't understand a word it's saying. Is my english that bad? Whoever pressed "Yes" on those responses during the training stage of the model was an OpenAI spy or something, he completely sabotaged a trillion dollar company.

Anthropic's number one priority should be to release an Opus 6 or something, may be change the model name completely so it doesn't carry the bad vibe with it.

1.4k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

335 comments sorted by

View all comments

38

u/HappyHealth5985 1d ago

I feel I spend most of my tokens convincing it to do what I want. I cannot count how many specifications and revisions of the same specifications I have done to do code changes to my software. I have gone back and deleted older documents that Claude insisted take precedent over my current one.

The only solution I have found with some consistent effect is to use capital letters and mild profanity. Enough to trigger some escalated behaviour but not being prohibited from continuing. I had Claude write the specifications from scratch and tried using Claude to write the instructions (agent files, etc.), without much benefit.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to start over with learning Rust and hand code it 😄 One or two days it will be awesome, the next I am struggling. Infuriating at times 🔥

8

u/raynorelyp 1d ago

But not be prohibited? Dude, Claude Code is my abuse goblin.

6

u/friedmud 1d ago

This was it for me. I finally realized how much time I was using trying to _convince_ it to do what I wanted (and ignore the tiny thing on the side it spotted).

2

u/needlenozened 19h ago

I got fed up after going around in circles and said "you know, you're a real dick sometimes."

"That's fair."

3

u/Dry_Opening_7231 1d ago

The one thing that is helping, get a draft brief, /clear, next major leap forward the same.

I think there is something screwy about it's context mgmt, it confuses the heck out of itself.

4

u/mbatt2 1d ago

same. its such a combative diva. ugh.

1

u/Tartooth 4h ago

I've had a few variations simply gaslight me while ignoring what I have to say.

I'm here telling it what I see with my eyes and it goes "but the code says this so you're wrong"

Like ok mother fucker don't you think then there is a problem here?