'Opus 5 If You Forget to Tell It to Be Concise' Hits 411 Upvotes — the Verbosity Complaint Now Has a Canonical Joke
An r/ClaudeAI post at 411 upvotes / 44 comments crystallizes the Opus 5 default-verbosity complaint into a bit: asked which ice cream flavor to get, Opus 5 answers 'Chocolate, or vanilla, or mint chip, or you could create your own store and make your own flavors. If you do that you'll need a business loan, a store...' This is the same sentiment thread that produced last week's Ultracode-recovers-Fable-behavior counter-signal, but where that post was a workaround, this one is the community settling on a shared complaint — the stage where a model quirk becomes a durable reputation. Practical read for builders: system-prompt terseness instructions are not optional with Opus 5, and the community has now made that common knowledge rather than tribal knowledge.
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