{"id":2763,"date":"2026-07-28T14:45:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:45:25","slug":"opus-5-love-for-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/2763-opus-5-love-for-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Opus 5 love for comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a short one &#8211; since the recent release of Opus 5 I noticed that all of my sloperation seem to have even more comments in the code now than ever.<br \/><br \/>On one hand is kind of good for future generations [of agents] to figure out this or that thing, but it seems to be very excessive and deliberate.<br \/><br \/>My theory is that the model is incentivized to do that by either claude code itself or it&#8217;s baked in the model weights to produce more output tokens.<br \/>I don&#8217;t have other good explanation for this where the task was to just swap some translation strings:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2766\" src=\"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-28-at-14.35.55-800x379.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-28-at-14.35.55-800x379.png 800w, https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-28-at-14.35.55-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-28-at-14.35.55-768x364.png 768w, https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-28-at-14.35.55-1536x728.png 1536w, https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-28-at-14.35.55-620x294.png 620w, https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-28-at-14.35.55.png 1887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Also my colleague shared this recent snippet of his work:<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2767\" src=\"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"674\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-8.png 674w, https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-8-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-8-620x255.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a short one &#8211; since the recent release of Opus 5 I noticed that all of my sloperation seem to have even more comments in the code now than ever. On one hand is kind of good for future generations [of agents] to figure out this or that thing, but it seems to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[797,807],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding-en","tag-ai","tag-claude"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buznik.net\/j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}