I can't do Opus 5 anymore. Every time I talk with it and try to read it, I literally get so confused. Has anyone figured out how to not make it weird to work with?
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A user on Reddit expressed frustration with Opus 5, despite initially being excited about its potential for YouTube video editing. While acknowledging its help in automating tedious editing tasks, the user struggles with communicating effectively with the model, finding it difficult to keep Opus 5 focused and easy to understand. They are seeking advice from the community on how to leverage its improved capabilities without encountering these communication challenges.
I was very excited for Opus 5, and it has done some great work for me, as I have a YouTube channel. It has helped me tremendously with actually being able to make edits on my videos and automate a lot of the dumb editing work I used to have to do by hand and spend so much time on. That has been a huge win for me.
However, as I've worked with it more and more, I have found it to be really annoying to work with. It has dragged me into so many unnecessary rabbit holes, and I just don't like the way it writes. It tells me things that are only things that I can do, but really all I have to do is say, "Hey, why don't you try it?" and then it's able to do it. Its language feels like somebody who's trying to be really intellectual but actually just ends up losing you in how they're being overcomplicated with their speaking instead of simplifying things.
I feel like I am struggling to communicate with this model and to keep it scoped and focused while also making it easy to understand. I'm curious: has anyone found ways to work with Opus 5 that actually take advantage of the supposedly improved capabilities without some of the downsides?