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Claude Opus 5.5

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  1. Catloafdev · · focus · HN ↗
    > Opus 5.5 communicates more naturally than prior models. Early testers found its writing clearer and easier to follow, which addresses some of the common feedback we heard about Opus 5.

    Sounds like they noticed the complaints. I'm curious to see what LLM-isms this one may have.

    1. dgroshev · · focus · HN ↗
      I don't think it's substantially different. I just pasted a random chunk of code and asked Opus 5.5 to comment on it:

      > The Vercel target is hard-coded. That's common and not wrong, but it's opaque; nobody reading this later will know which Vercel project it belongs to, and if the project is recreated the target changes silently. A comment or a named variable would help.

      > Pointing a DNS name at Vercel is only half the job. The domain also has to be added to the project in Vercel's dashboard, otherwise requests will arrive and Vercel will reject them. That step lives outside this code, so it's easy to forget.

      > Finally, [CENSORED] existing only in production is slightly odd on the face of it. It may be perfectly deliberate (perhaps a single shared testing tool that only needs one public address), but if you're reviewing this rather than just reading it, that's worth confirming.

      It has the same annoying cadence and writing style with slightly less prominent claudisms.

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