A model that does even fewer Claude-isms (Opus 5 was horrible for that, 5.5 is better), can also read the room better (if I ask it to write some delivery docs it still sometimes overshares internal details rather than sticking with the format and style of the previous 20 versions even after AGENTS.md tells it not to vomit internal implementation details there, though honestly something like Sol 6.1 was even worse and couldn’t even follow the Markdown template properly some days, inventing new sections) and also would have increasingly better capabilities - 3D modelling is still subpar, reasoning about images still misses details (e.g. while working on texturing fails to notice a red colored band due to bad unwrapping) and also wouldn’t get unnecessarily held back, like reverse engineering software to realize why it doesn’t work or their overall opposition to REA. Aside from that, maybe also not Claude slop UI styling with those fucking disgusting punchy short sentence labels everywhere and also oversharing details nobody cares about.

What Claude is doing is “completeness theater” and “correctness theater.”

But why do I have to tell a frontier model not to write things that its audience can’t check or would not care about?

Using the “concise” output with Claude and Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.2 is hilarious, because the models will still write too much (all the “correctness theater”), but then for key points, give you concise, but almost-indecipherable sentences that take aeons to parse to understand.

It feels like they trained it to avoid terms that it became notorious for (“load-bearing”, etc), but it still writes as though it is an academic paper proving a theorem, just about everywhere. Tell-tale signs these days is the inability to use negative polarity verbs (everything is “did no X” and “has no X”), constant potpourri of non-technical/anthropomorphic verbs/idioms (everything “names”, things “hold”, child node “goes with” the parent node, a list “says”, the list entry “went” or a method “took” it). It loves to use “cap” and “bound” as verbs and nouns and is allergic to “limit.”

Yeah also with Opus 5.5 you still have to be really careful what you say and keep the context clean. When you discussed a particular point a little bit more to understand it, claude often decides that is a really important part and when you later ask claude to write a doc, they will write a few paragraphs about that detail. Even if it's not that important

[delayed]

The big plan to not let this happen is being implemented by the biggest. The only thing left is to buy out every company that will try to e.g. make memory or faster local NPUs. We will have terminals, not capable of any bigger work and majority of people will always choose faster alternative, even slightly worse. And outside of IT and the richest - no one cares about privacy or data processing details.