Yes
5.5 communicates like a real collaborator and not something that constantly demands my mental energy to decode what it's trying to say
desmondl on Hacker News
In the thread “Claude Opus 5.5”, replying to this comment
Helped: Direct answers and clear framing of caveats.
… It still covers as much detail as Opus 5, and provides a healthy amount of caveats, but it's much better at just providing the answer up front and framing the caveats. 5.5 communicates like a real collaborator and not something that constantly demands my mental energy to decode what it's trying to say. In the application I'm working on, we don't want "user's local midnight" to mean "next day". …