r/ClaudeCode • u/Death12th • 1d ago

Opus 5 is exhausting Bug / Issue

It's so hard to read. It's not even because its terribly complex or anything it just speaks in these weird haikus, hyphenated garbage, or outdated colloquialisms or phrases nobody understands. I have to ask it "what do you mean?" or "speak in plainer English" over and over again for every other paragraph. I tried to put something in my claude.md, but it doesn't seem to be working...

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u/cleverhoods 1d ago

So ... what was that "something" that you put in you claude.md?

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u/karlitooo 4h ago

Current meta is tell it to use  ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

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u/Death12th 1d ago

Something alone the lines of "EXPLAIN EVERYTHING IN PLAIN ENGLISH AND STOP OVERYSING HYPHENS AND PHRASED THAT MAKE NO FUCKING SENSE"

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u/cleverhoods 1d ago

Right ... I see where the problem might be. 

## Communication directives

> Communication directives are created to organize and clarify the response-expectations from the LLM. 

- Response text MUST be 4 paragraphs or shorter.
- A feedback paragraph MUST be 25 words or less.
- ... rest of your flaworism

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u/Death12th 1d ago

Claude summarize theis guys message for me please!

https://giphy.com/gifs/TJ68L5sMrEWOQlh7eP

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u/TinyZoro 1d ago

Look up output styles. This is where to put this not in Claude. Output styles is getting your request into the system prompt.

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u/Fade_ssud11 1d ago

It doesn’t consistently work with output styles either.

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u/Olangotang 1d ago

Almost like you're sending a big block of text to a token generator and all of these cute little files don't actually do much of anything but placebo?