alt Hacker NewsIt's not even code for me, but the prose it writes. For some reason, the way Opus 5 "talk" elicits frustration in a way that 4.5 to 4.8 never did. Can't put my finger on why, but I've flipped over to Codex because what it produced wasn't worth the frustration.
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pjm331 • today at 4:25 PM
I took a month off and recently came back and was wondering if that was it but it is absolutely headache inducing in a way I don’t remember earlier models being
netniuq • today at 11:25 AM
for me it feels very similar to the trends already apparent in 4.5-4.8, just way, way worse.
thr0w • today at 2:58 PM
It is rage inducing.
I found myself swearing at it more recently.
It was going off today about having “shipped” something and I was like no… nothing has even been committed.
And then it produced an incredibly verbose comment about hypothetical future changes. And all I could think was sure, let’s keep it short, or add a simple test that will break if that hypothetical becomes true.
Or maybe I’m just more easily annoyed recently…