Anthropic needs to scale back on the personality. I don’t want to feel like I’m pair programming with a quirky, ingenious engineer who may or may not have tourettes. I want a tool that is reduces cognitive load, clarifies problems, explains concepts and details clearly, doing only what is needed of it in any given moment. That means: No meandering explanations filled with noise. I frequently get heavily EDITED explanations from the models that look like a) this . They frequently interleave randomCode(withDetail) whether its necessary or not, make heavy use of mathematical symbology e.g. → 𐤈/γ/Δ/ε as well as other non standard symbols, and take unnecessary detours trying to explain behavior or edge cases they don’t actually properly understand, raising caveats and ‘things to verify’ that are frequently wrong or, annoyingly enough, not actually caveats as the model realizes mid sentence. It needs to remember how to write good code again. I am seeing output filled with abstract acronyms, symbols and terminology made up on the fly. The later models have suddenly become partial to using shorthand variable names, and outputting ‘clever’ one liners. I needed a function that hides a piece of UI when it is not within the bounds of a view. Opus created something called applyOOBAlpha (apply out of bound alpha). Just awful naming that makes me think that the later models have been fine tuned on scientific codebases, which is terrifying if you’re familiar with the kind of code mathematicians produce. I do not need CC to have a conversation or discussion about how things should be done. We are at the stage where it is clear that LLM’s are incapable of making well informed architectural decisions, and are not good at reasoning through tradeoffs and edge cases. They simply do not have enough context in a single conversation for a decently sized codebase. I don’t want the model to offer opinions, advice or guidance on how things should be done unless specifically or explicitly asked for. I also don’t want it to sign off every message with ‘what is your take on xyz?’. This is a work session. This is not a conversation that needs to be optimized for engagement. Model/API reasoning and response times are not improving. It exacerbates all the above and makes it hard to justify my Max subscription. There’s nothing quite like waiting for 8m to get a dense, half correct wall of text that is hard to parse and reads like someone’s trail of thought rather than an output from a coding tool. This is essentially just a rant. I hope it gets picked up somewhere, somehow, and in some way influences the direction of CC. It remains the most polished TUI for agentic coding, and it’s a pleasure to use - when it works . Lately, it does not, even with careful CLAUDE.md guidance. I will be cancelling my Max subscription for now, and likely renew with a different provider. I hope Anthropic re-calibrates CC for the priorities of every day developers better in the future. submitted by /u/endgamer42
Originally posted by u/endgamer42 on r/ClaudeCode
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