Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?

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Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?.

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I'm a professional software engineer at a startup with about 50 engineers.

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My primary languages are Ruby (Rails), TypeScript (React), and Go.Of my colleagues, I'm one of the ones who tries to keep up with new AI models on every release.

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My go-to models are GPT-5.6 Sol on high/xhigh for planning, GPT-5.6 Sol on low/Grok 4.6 on medium for implementation, and the occasional Claude Fable 5 for complex, harder-to-understand and implement tasks.

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Many of my colleagues are exclusively Claude users and use Claude Code.I'm not the first one to observe this but I feel like any time I use Fable, Opus, or Sonnet, they are extremely verbose.

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B: Many of my colleagues are exclusively Claude users and use Claude Code.I'm not the first one to observe this but I feel like any time I use Fable, Opus, or Sonnet, they are extremely verbose.