The surface-level hints are gone, but the attempt to make every sentence pithy, the decisions on what information to present and what to assume the audience knows, and the over-emotionalization are all still there.
The ‘concise’ output style setting is bad with Opus 5.5, as it will often spit out a cryptic (is this really English?!), allergic-to-commas concise response, which takes more time to parse.
< mundane detail>
< If you don't run this command your computer will explode>
< exposition >
< mundane reminder to follow up something else >
Then 3 back and forths later, your computer explodes, and claude has the cheek to point out when questioned that it did warn you.In the past I could get an explanation, where I was able to track the line of thought. Now when I read through the explanation it is like someone has taken two or three explanations and merged them into each other, like there is a combining of iterations without clarity.
example:
The tree is blue.
The tall tree has the color of blue.
the tree, while tall, is blue.
That finally gets squished into: the blue tall tree has height and is evident of blue.
Is this double speak or injected double effort of words?
Except it turns out that at least one of those things is because I didn't enable JS, and the static text is wrong!
(Turning on JS did not actually help, because then the page is filled with horrible, cheesy animations and I can't actually read any of it.)