Anthropic engineer explains why Claude's writing got worse although the model got smarter
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What happened
Anthropic employee Jackson Kernion explains why newer Claude models write so oddly. Optimizing for math, code, and technical explanations aimed at other AI models has created a style that sounds like "overly-dense info dumps" to humans. Opus 5.5 tries to fix this, but Opus 4.6 remains unmatched as a pure writing model.
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