What bothers me most with Opus 5.5 is its verbosity.Claude Code has an output style setting that I set to "Concise", with no apparent effect.I am told this is merely something in the system prompt that the model tends not to pay attention to with large contexts.Opus 5.5 writes whole essays at the end of the turn, with the important actionable steps somewhere at the bottom.When prompted to give a concise summary, it usually overshoots into a super short summary and then you have to dig into the details again anyway.In general I find Opus 5.5's writing to still have more "ticks" or "Claudisms" than the OpenAI models.Its explanations often appear overcomplicated for simple concepts.Sure, it's leagues above the ridiculous writing of Opus 5, but Anthropic still has a long way to go here.
ask claude code to start new claude sessions while refining the output style. until it looks right. my claude code now writes well.
Thing is, you already have limited space for context. A CLAUDE.MD larger than about 150 lines will exceed it. That is not a lot of space to describe, for example, a complex code base, development conventions, and all the other important stuff.
Apparently Anthropic's guidance says under 200 lines is ideal.That seems ironic, considering they ship like 20k of context in Claude Code's system prompts etc.
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Claude Code has an output style setting that I set to "Concise", with no apparent effect.
I am told this is merely something in the system prompt that the model tends not to pay attention to with large contexts.
Opus 5.5 writes whole essays at the end of the turn, with the important actionable steps somewhere at the bottom.
When prompted to give a concise summary, it usually overshoots into a super short summary and then you have to dig into the details again anyway.
In general I find Opus 5.5's writing to still have more "ticks" or "Claudisms" than the OpenAI models.
Its explanations often appear overcomplicated for simple concepts.
Sure, it's leagues above the ridiculous writing of Opus 5, but Anthropic still has a long way to go here.
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That seems ironic, considering they ship like 20k of context in Claude Code's system prompts etc.