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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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Hey, Boris from the Claude Code team here. I wanted to take a sec to explain the context for this change. One of the hard things about building a product on an LLM is that the model frequently changes underneath you. Since we introduced Claude Code almost a year ago, Claude has gotten more intelligent, it runs for longer periods of time, and it is able to more agentically use more tools. This is one of the magical th…

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Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

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Try Codex instead. Much greener pastures overall

I do love my subagents and I wrote an entire Claude Code audio hook system for a11y but this would be still rather compelling if Codex weren't also somewhat of an a11y nightmare. It does some weird thing with ... maybe terminal repaints or something else that ends up rereading the same text over and over. Claude Code does this similarly but Codex ends up reading like ... all the weird symbols and other stuff? window…

Is it as bad with the Codex app, or VS Code plugin?

They are much more responsive on GitHub issues than Anthropic so you could also try reporting your issue there

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

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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.

Patching's not long for this world; Claude Code has moved to binary releases. Soon, the NPM release will just be a thin wrapper around the binary.

the binary is just bun. I wrote this to inspect CC

https://github.com/shepherdjerred/monorepo/tree/main/package...

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

#535
post #517

Hey, Boris from the Claude Code team here. I wanted to take a sec to explain the context for this change. One of the hard things about building a product on an LLM is that the model frequently changes underneath you. Since we introduced Claude Code almost a year ago, Claude has gotten more intelligent, it runs for longer periods of time, and it is able to more agentically use more tools. This is one of the magical th…

Hi Boris, by far the most upvoted issue at 2550 on your github is "Support AGENTS.md" with 2550 upvotes. The second highest one has 563. Every single other agent supports AGENTS.md. Care to share why you haven't? > Yoshi and others -- please keep the feedback coming. We want to hear it, and we genuinely want to improve the product in a way that gives great defaults for the majority of users, while being extremely hac…

Let's be real here, regardless of what Boris thinks, this decision is not in his hands.

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

#536
post #229

> That’s it. “Read 3 files.” Which files? Doesn’t matter. “Searched for 1 pattern.” What pattern? Who cares. Product manager here. Cynically, this is classic product management: simplify and remove useful information under the guise of 'improving the user experience' or perhaps minimalism if you're more overt about your influences. It's something that as an industry we should be over by now. It requires deep understa…

> Cynically, this is classic product management: simplify and remove useful information under the guise of 'improving the user experience' or perhaps minimalism if you're more overt about your influences. Cynically , it's a vibe coded mess and the "programmers" at Anthropic can't figure out how to put it back. More cynically , Anthropic management is trying to hide anything that people could map to token count (aka m…

I'm not usually very cynical, but either of those seems equally likely as what's going on here.

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

#537
I've been using Claude Code heavily for the past few weeks on a production project. Opus 4.6 is noticeably more capable than what I was using before, longer autonomous runs, better contextual awareness across files, fewer hallucinated edits. The UX changes I'm less sure about. The progressive disclosure thing makes sense in theory but sometimes I want to see exactly what it's doing without clicking through. The terminal is where I work, don't hide things from me.

Boris's response here is the right move though. Acknowledging the miss and committing to a fix in the next release is how you build trust with a dev audience.

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

#538

I'm old, so I remember when Skyrim came out. At the time, people were howling about how "dumbed down" the RPG had become compared to previous versions. They had simplified so many systems. Seemed to work out for them overall. I understand the article writers frustration. He liked a thing about a product he uses and they changed the product. He is feeling angry and he is expressing that anger and others are sharing in…

That is a very insightful point. It highlights the irony of complaining about "loss of control" immediately after voluntarily inviting an autonomous agent into the codebase.

Those specific logs are essentially a prop anyways. Removing them makes it harder to LARP as an active participant; it forces the realization that "we" are now just passive observers.

Re: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

#539

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There are so many config options. Most I still need to truly deeply understand. But this one isn't? I'd call myself a professional. I use with tons of files across a wide range of projects and types of work. To me file paths were an important aspect of understanding context of the work and of the context CC was gaining. Now? It feels like running on a foggy street, never sure when the corner will come and I'll hit a…

You want verbose mode for this -- we evolved it to do exactly what you're asking for: verbose file reads, without seeing thinking traces, hook output, or (after tomorrow's release) full subagent output. More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982177

There's no way you're still talking about verbose mode.. this is insane.
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