Users criticize Claude Opus 5 for verbosity and coding regressions
Claude Opus 5 posts strong benchmarks, roughly on par with GPT-5.6, but many users report it feels worse than Opus 4.8 in daily coding, citing verbosity, overreach, and scattered output. Anthropic's Thariq acknowledged Opus is not perfect and fixing it is a priority.
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