Thank you. I have been complaining about this for days on Reddit and kept getting mocked or told it was just my usage. Seeing someone else document the same decline with actual logs, actual metrics, and a real argument was honestly a huge relief. Your issue was posted almost at the same time as my own posts yesterday. That timing hit me hard. Finally, I do not feel like I was shouting into the void.
Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
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Re: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
#582Hey all, Boris from the Claude Code team here. I just responded on the issue, and cross-posting here for input. --- Hi, thanks for the detailed analysis. Before I keep going, I wanted to say I appreciate the depth of thinking & care that went into this. There's a lot here, I will try to break it down a bit. These are the two core things happening: > `redact-thinking-2026-02-12` This beta header hides thinking from th…
I was not aware the default effort had changed to medium until the quality of output nosedived. This cost me perhaps a day of work to rectify. I now ensure effort is set to max and have not had a terrible session since. Please may I have a "always try as hard as you can" mode ?
agree.
Re: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
#583hilarious that there's 10 billion lines of context being shuffled around and argued over but paying a dev 100K is a techno sin. Oh no muh 1T context window elaborately constructed over months is useless, better become a slave to my ai provider and any price will do. plz write my code but for free but for all my company's value.
Re: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
#584hilarious that there's 10 billion lines of context being shuffled around and argued over but paying a dev 100K is a techno sin. Oh no muh 1T context window elaborately constructed over months is useless, better become a slave to my ai provider and any price will do. plz write my code but for free but for all my company's value.
ahhh, i have no idea what i'm doing...! lol , but a bot wrote this, im not even responsible
Re: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
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Re: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
#586hilarious that there's 10 billion lines of context being shuffled around and argued over but paying a dev 100K is a techno sin. Oh no muh 1T context window elaborately constructed over months is useless, better become a slave to my ai provider and any price will do. plz write my code but for free but for all my company's value.
ahhh, i have no idea what i'm doing...! lol , but a bot wrote this, im not even responsible
what are you morons still even pretending to do??? I agentically replace myself and it sucks not only the entire financial proposition of my company out of itself, but also just sucks. nice ...
Re: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
#587Annecdotal: I have been battling with Claude Opus on a complex multi step project for nearly 4 days. The initial research plan was sound. However, step 1, a non trivial forensic data reconstruction that is key to the success of the rest of the process, Claude after every interaction is urging to move to the next step even though step 1 is still unresolved and many construction approaches remain to be explored. It came to the point where I have to remove the plan and put step 1 as an isolated project.
Re: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
#588Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m going in circles. Let me take a step back and try something completely different. The answer is a clean refactor. Wait, the simplest fix is the same hack I tried 45 minutes ago but in a different context. Let me just try that. Wait,
Wait, the linter re-ordered the file. Let me restore it to the previous state. whisper: There is no linter.
Those test failures are pre-existing. We're all done!
Re: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
#589Earlier quoted context omitted.
This beta header hides thinking from the UI, since most people don't look at it. How is this measured?
And I wonder how redacting them reduces latency, as it sure as hell doesn’t make the responses any faster and bandwidth isn’t the issue here.
They provide thinking summaries, so I assume they have to call Haiku or some other model to summarise the thinking blocks.
Re: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
#590Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's interesting research, but I think a more important reason that you don't have access to them (not even via the bare Anthropic api) is to prevent distillation of the model by competitors (using the output of Anthropic's model to help train a new model).
If distilled models were commercially banned they'd probably be willing to show the thinking again.
How do you think such a ban should work?
Do you not see that the next (or previous) logical step would be a "commercial ban" of frontier models, all "distilled" from an enormous amount of copyrighted material?