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by kranner 17 hours ago
Surprised to find no mention of "load-bearing" and "gated" particularly for Claude.

In particular Opus 5 is scaling new heights of incomprehensibility with excessive metaphor-making, especially when it uses an existing word in the prompt or the code comments as a novel metaphor in an unrelated context.

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My Fable pet-peeve is "You're half right, and half wrong, and the wrong half is worth diving into"
But fables is often worth diving into at least. Opus 5 says this and then rambles on about something completely irrelevant or even wrong
“Reply with ASD-STE100” has been a God-send.
Someone on Twitter suggested ISO 24495-1, in case ASD-STE100 is a bit too sparse.
Just tried this as part of an ask about chronic inflammation. What an enormous difference your tip makes in the reply style and structure - wow. And thank you.
Opus 5 really loves explaining concepts using a lot of jargon as well. Often ive had to ask Claude to explain its explanation
I don't know which model, but... "quietly"