u/HPaternalPatriarchy

If you've gone through r/Anthropic or other Opus 5 heavy subs you'll be well aware of the verbosity slop that Claude's most recent upgrades have created. It'll easily spend around half or more of a response writing poetry while only 1 point out of 6 is actually valid or relevant to the question you asked. (see image 1)

There's also the phenomenon I noticed where every frontier LLM (Claude, Grok, GPT, Gemini) repeatedly and aggressively uses the word "classic" (see images 2, 3, 4) even especially in situations where it (A) doesn't apply to the problem at all, or (B) is actually not even a 'classic' fix.

It'll then backpedal immediately and cycle to a different solution when called out.

My initial thought was, why do LLMs always find everything "classic" and then get it wrong anyway?

Putting two and two together, as of Q3 2026, the situation reads that LLM labs are changing their tactic away from actual sound development of frontier intelligence toward the illusion of sounding intelligent.

That's why we are having situations where people willingly downgrade from Claude 5 models to 4.6 or 4.7 because the "pseudo-sophisticated" shorthanded alien language has become too unbearable or friction-heavy for ordinary human comprehension or even engineering use cases.

What are your thoughts?

For the record, this is the Furama Anytime Fitness branch. This is my third month here and I'm starting to regret my decision in choosing this specific branch.

I came here because they advertise themselves as being the biggest AF branch in Singapore.

- The washrooms/showers are exceedingly cramped and it's difficult to move around inside.

- Toilets are mouldy and full of drain flies. Soap is missing or shower hook outright damaged.

- There is only one unisex toilet, the floor is constantly flooded; when the cleaner is doing her job, there's basically no other option unless you want to exit the space altogether (good luck if the public toilet washrooms are also undergoing cleaning). Why is there only one unisex toilet for the biggest AF in Singapore?

It's been like this with no changes for some months now. Been reading horror stories about EzyPay blameshifting to customers [1] [2] [3] and AF in general blameshifting to customers [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].

There was one time early on where they told me to pay my monthly bill directly via bank transfer, which I did. Then after paying via bank transfer, EzyPay charged me a late fee. They said they "didn't see the bank transfer" (I still have the screenshot of the tranfer, which was before payment due date) and refused to waive the "late fee". I let it go and believed I was in the wrong (especially because they have a high 4.9 star rating on Google), but these issues just keep mounting.

I feel like I am going insane? Need some second opinions please