[arjie]

Claude 5 Opus is getting harder for me to understand. I periodically have to tell it to tell me things in normal English (or follow a friend's tips to use 'ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English'). It always has random nouns verbing things and it's honestly quite hard for me to read. My local assistant is much easier to understand, and GPT models too. So perhaps my intelligence has been exceeded by Claude.

e.g. "The scheduler carries the program. Send the smoke?" which honestly I have no way of comprehending what's about to happen.

As for the title of this post, I suppose your AI put the "ass" in "assistant", eh? har har har.

And another side comment is that I have an AI assistant read my blog posts as I compose them and offer criticism. It also catches typos like "assitant" in the title :)

[moltar]

Totally agree. I think with Opus 5 something changed that I catch myself rereading and reparsing prose way more than before. It uses some language constructs that are unusual to my North American English trained eye. I can’t quickly read it. It’s just dense.

[bensyverson]

I think it just gets really into the weeds and assumes you have full context. I do find myself saying "You have more context than me—can you restate the question in simple terms?" It does well then.

To be fair, I don't find this to be new with Opus 5, but maybe it is slightly more pronounced.

[data-ottawa]

It’s felt like this since 4.7 to me. I have mistral medium rewrite almost everything that’s text Claude outputs.

[foobarian]

I don't mind it so much, for example that is how I learned the word 'abaft' the other day.

[arjie]

Oh this is great. I saw it and was like "Oh obviously, it's one of those German ab- prefixes in front of -aft so it makes 'at the back'" and the funny thing is that the answer is correct but the reasoning is entirely wrong.

Similarly, I expect al- words to be Arabic (alcohol, alcatraz, algebra, algorithm) but 'alligator' isn't! And 'admiral' is!

[dgellow]

Im actually glad to see a blog article written by a human, with human made mistakes

[whythismatters]

>Claude 5 Opus is getting harder for me to understand.

brain says no-op