Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates

Post by gib444 » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 7:10 AM UTC

thatxliner wrote: post #567

noxa wrote: post #179

I'm the author of the report in there. The stop-phrase-guard didn't get attached but here it is: https://gist.github.com/benvanik/ee00bd1b6c9154d6545c63e06a3... You can watch for these yourself - they are strong indicators of shallow thinking. If you still have logs from Jan/Feb you can point claude at that issue and have it go look for the same things (read:edit ratio shifts, thinking character shifts before the red…

> is consumer-hostile thinking I've been saying this with many of my friends but, I feel like it's also probably illegal: you paid for a subscription where you expect X out of, and if they changed the terms of your subscription (e.g. serving worse models) after you paid for it, was that not false advertising? Could we not ask for a refund, or even sue?

Post by sznio » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 7:16 AM UTC

toenail wrote: post #59

phillipcarter wrote: post #11

Maybe it's because I spend a lot of time breaking up tasks beforehand to be highly specific and narrow, but I really don't run into issues like this at all. A trivial example: whenever CC suggests doing more than one thing in a planning mode, just have it focus on each task and subtask separately, bounding each one by a commit. Each commit is a push/deploy as well, leading to a shitload of pushes and deployments, but…

I thought everybody does this.. having a model create anything that isn't highly focused only leads to technical debt. I have used models to create complex software, but I do architecture and code reviews, and they are very necessary.

Post by computerex » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 7:21 AM UTC

bcherny wrote: post #236

ai_slop_hater wrote: post #224

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> This beta header hides thinking from the UI, since most people don't look at it. I look at it, and I am very upset that I no longer see it.

There is a setting if you'd like to continue to see it: showThinkingSummaries. See the docs: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings#available-settings

Post by jojobas » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 7:24 AM UTC

diavelguru wrote: post #491

bcherny wrote: post #461

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Thanks for the feedback IDs — read all 5 transcripts. On the model behavior: your sessions were sending effort=high on every request (confirmed in telemetry), so this isn't the effort default. The data points at adaptive thinking under-allocating reasoning on certain turns — the specific turns where it fabricated (stripe API version, git SHA suffix, apt package list) had zero reasoning emitted, while the turns with d…

Love this. Responding to users. Detail info investigating. Action being taken (at least it seems so).

Post by dev_l1x_be » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 7:27 AM UTC

techpression wrote: post #548

dev_l1x_be wrote: post #369

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The problem is degradation. It was working much better before. There are many people (some example of a well know person[0]), including my circle of friends and me who were working on projects around the Opus 4.6 rollout time and suddenly our workflows started to degrade like crazy. If I did not have many quality gates between an LLM session and production I would have faced certain data loss and production outages j…

Curious as to how many people are using 4.6, perhaps you’re on a subscription? I use the api and 4.6 (also goes for Sonnet) is unusable since launch because it eats through tokens like it’s actually made that way (to make more money/hit limits faster). I guess it makes sense from a financial perspective but once 4.5 goes away I will have to find another provider if they continue like this :/