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NoClaude · 28 Aug 2026

It’s gotten so bad that opus 5 loop escapes even as it claims it’s about to do something

fnordpiglet on Hacker News

In the thread “Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Opus 5 loop escapes and inability to achieve goals without hand-holding.

… This, IMO, is a naked attempt to offload load by quieting the models early and escaping from clear work to do. It’s gotten so bad that opus 5 loop escapes even as it claims it’s about to do something. I’ve mandated by engineering teams switch back to opus 4-8. …