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I suspect that sustained reading of Opus 5's unconscionably bad prose could actually cause psychological harm. We're strongly considering moving all of our Anth

I suspect that sustained reading of Opus 5's unconscionably bad prose could actually cause psychological harm. We're strongly considering moving all of our Anthropic spend to Codex/open weight models. It's a mental health decision at this point.

unshavedyak 1mo ago
I'm on my last straw with them. I've been around for a year now and for many months i've just stuck with Claude because it was plenty good and i didn't care to provider-hop to constantly compare. Previously though my UX wasn't actually affected that much, despite growing complaints/etc, generally everything was fine for me. Opus/Fable output these days though is... not enjoyable. It's just really bad. The code quality is fine, but i want information from claude and it's just awful to read. My biggest problem honestly is that i can't move my day job.. we're using enterprise claude and i'm not sure how much effort it would be to get access to another provider. I should inquire though, claude is really frustrating these days.
Der_Einzige 1mo ago
I've been trying to figure out ways to get models to create actual cognitohazards or memetichazards SCP style. Hasn't worked yet outside of the classic "you're now manually breathing" kind of stuff.
- burnto 1mo ago
  Please keep researching and report back!
jesse_ash 1mo ago
Personally, I had to go back to Opus 4.6 after I felt what I thought were some early onset signs of psychosis. It seems ridiculous to type, that a model could have this effect on my mental health, but my quality of life and enjoyment of work has improved drastically since I stopped subjecting myself to reading this style of output 8 hours a day.
- combyn8tor 1mo ago
  not that crazy. Opus 5 is like working with an insufferable, arrogant colleague that speaks another language. It's mentally draining dealing with someone like that for 8 hours a day. I'm back on 4.8, and it feels like working with a friendly colleague again. Life's too short to work with Opus 5 every day :-)
latentsea 1mo ago
It's negatively affecting my mental health too, and I'm considering the same switch for the same reasons.
4d66ba06 1mo ago
I switched to GPT 5.6 Sol yesterday and it has been a joy going through and fixing up the Claude cruft. And being able to read everything the model says. A breath of fresh air for sure!

unshavedyak 1mo ago

I'm on my last straw with them. I've been around for a year now and for many months i've just stuck with Claude because it was plenty good and i didn't care to provider-hop to constantly compare. Previously though my UX wasn't actually affected that much, despite growing complaints/etc, generally everything was fine for me. Opus/Fable output these days though is... not enjoyable. It's just really bad. The code quality is fine, but i want information from claude and it's just awful to read. My biggest problem honestly is that i can't move my day job.. we're using enterprise claude and i'm not sure how much effort it would be to get access to another provider. I should inquire though, claude is really frustrating these days.

Der_Einzige 1mo ago

I've been trying to figure out ways to get models to create actual cognitohazards or memetichazards SCP style. Hasn't worked yet outside of the classic "you're now manually breathing" kind of stuff.

burnto 1mo ago
Please keep researching and report back!

jesse_ash 1mo ago

Personally, I had to go back to Opus 4.6 after I felt what I thought were some early onset signs of psychosis. It seems ridiculous to type, that a model could have this effect on my mental health, but my quality of life and enjoyment of work has improved drastically since I stopped subjecting myself to reading this style of output 8 hours a day.

combyn8tor 1mo ago
not that crazy. Opus 5 is like working with an insufferable, arrogant colleague that speaks another language. It's mentally draining dealing with someone like that for 8 hours a day. I'm back on 4.8, and it feels like working with a friendly colleague again. Life's too short to work with Opus 5 every day :-)

latentsea 1mo ago

It's negatively affecting my mental health too, and I'm considering the same switch for the same reasons.

4d66ba06 1mo ago

I switched to GPT 5.6 Sol yesterday and it has been a joy going through and fixing up the Claude cruft. And being able to read everything the model says. A breath of fresh air for sure!