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Anthropic engineer explains why Claude's writing got worse although the model got smarter

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…

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  1. 2026-09-23 15:14 · The Decoder
    Anthropic engineer explains why Claude's writing got worse although the model got smarter

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