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Claude Code is being dumbed down?

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Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

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Serous question - why do people stick with Clause Code over Cursor? With Cursors base subscription I have access to pretty much all the Frontier models and can pick and choose. Anthropic models haven’t been my go-to in months, Gemini and Codex produce much better results for me.

Wouldn't you run out of tokens sooner? That's the big problem.

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

#152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about you, but I benefit so much from using Claude at work that I would gladly pay $80,000-$120,000 per year to keep using it.

Why would you gladly pay more than what it's worth? It's not an engineer you are hiring, it's AI. The whole point of it was to make intelligent workflows cheaper. If it's going to cost as much as an engineer, hire the engineer, at least you'd have an escape goat when things invariably go wrong.

I agree with you, I was just joking.

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

#153

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8477 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/15263 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/9099 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8371 It's very clear that Anthropic doesn't really want to expose the secret sauce to end users. I have to patch Claude every release to bring this functionality back.

> to end users

To other actors who want to train a distilled version of Claude, more likely.

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

#154
This was really useful; sometimes, by a glance, you'd see Claude looking at the wrong files or searching the wrong patterns, and would be able to immediately interrupt it. For those of us who like to be deeply involved in what Claude is doing, those updates were terribly disappointing.

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

#155
post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made this joke with "$1,500-$2000 per month" last night and everyone thought I was serious

I know people who burned several hundreds a day and still were finding it worth it.

Were they actually making money though? A lot of the people on the forefront of this AI stuff seem like cult leaders and crackheads to me.

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

#156
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All my information about this is being based on feels, because debugging isn't really feasible. Verbose mode is a mess, and there's no alternative. It still does what I need so I'm okay with it, but I'm also on the $20 plan so it's not that big of a worry for me. I did sense that the big wave of companies is hitting Anthropic's wallet. If you hadn't realized, a LOT of companies switched to Claude. No idea why, and th…

I can't watch a YouTube video without seeing a Claude ad. Same for friends. Safe for non-programmer friends.

The below remark is unrelated to the main topic of this thread.

Why would you even watch a YouTube video with ads?

There are ad blockers, sponsor segment blockers, etc. If you use them, it will block almost every kind of YouTube ad.

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

#157

Sounds like the compacting issue. > Compacting fails when the thread is very large > We fixed it. > No you did not > Yes now it auto compacts all messages. > Ok but we don't want compaction when the thread isn't large, plus, it still fails when the compacted thread is too large > ...

Let me fix that for you:

> Compacting fails when the thread is very large

Flips coin, it is Heads

> We fixed it.

> No you did not

Flips coin, it is Tails

> Yes now it auto compacts all messages.

Flips coin, it is Heads

> Ok but we don't want compaction when the thread isn't large, plus, it still fails when the compacted thread is too large

Flips coin, it is Grapefruit

> ...

Congratulations on a vibe solution, if you are unhappy with the frequency of isomorphic plagiarism... the vendor still has your money and new data =3

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

#158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you gladly pay more than what it's worth? It's not an engineer you are hiring, it's AI. The whole point of it was to make intelligent workflows cheaper. If it's going to cost as much as an engineer, hire the engineer, at least you'd have an escape goat when things invariably go wrong.

I agree with you, I was just joking.

Oh now I see... Joke's on me then I guess :D

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

#159
post #143

Serous question - why do people stick with Clause Code over Cursor? With Cursors base subscription I have access to pretty much all the Frontier models and can pick and choose. Anthropic models haven’t been my go-to in months, Gemini and Codex produce much better results for me.

Because when it's good, it's really good - Cursor doesn't work as well for me and also I prefer the TUI experience. If anything, the real alternative is OpenCode.
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