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Is it common for Claude, especially the Opus 5 model, to overdo things when following a detailed prompt?

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I’m wondering if this is an issue with the model itself or if there’s something wrong with the way I’m structuring my prompts. For example, I wrote a fairly detailed prompt asking it to implement one specific feature. I also broke the task down into different phases because I thought that would mak…

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  1. 2026-08-31 18:55 · r/AI_Agents
    Is it common for Claude, especially the Opus 5 model, to overdo things when following a detailed prompt?

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