# Anthropic engineer explains why Claude's writing got worse although the model got smarter > Source: > Published: 2026-09-23 15:14:34+00:00 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 a pure writing model. The article [Anthropic engineer explains why Claude's writing got worse although the model got smarter](https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-engineer-explains-why-claudes-writing-got-worse-although-the-model-got-smarter/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).