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r/ClaudeAI Practitioners Report Staying on Claude 4.6 Because Opus 5 'Floods the Chat With Nonsense Chatter'
A 233-upvote post argues the previous generation was better for routine work, with the specific complaint being conversational verbosity rather than reasoning quality — the author still routes a lot of work to 4.6. A separate 63-upvote thread reports Fable 5 degrading across a long-running planning session spanning chat and Claude Code desktop, losing track of a schema design decision it had itself flagged. Neither is measurable and both are single-community sentiment, but the pattern — users deliberately downgrading for verbosity — is a recurring practitioner signal worth tracking against future release notes.
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