WXLCKNO

Anthropic literally don't allow you to use the 1M context anymore on Sonnet and Opus 4.6 without it being billed as extra usage immediately.

I had 4.5 1M before that so they definitely made it worse.

OpenAI at least gives you the option of using your plan for it. Even if it uses it up more quickly.

update: he's in shambles upon hearing the news

After 2.20.0 of Claude code where they started not showing what files are read / searches are made by default .. I fucking love how easy it was to ditch Claude code for pi.

They're too small to screw you over. But you've got more time until they do at least.

I had a Claude code instance using 55 GB of RAM yesterday.

I capped my extra usage to that free 50$ and hit 108% usage. Nice.

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

Codex feels much faster. For a while after the rewrite (to rust also I think?) it was bad because you couldn't copy anything from the terminal but since then it's gotten much much better.

Saw this the other day and loved it. Especially seeing Opus 4.5 degrading prior to the 4.6 release (IIRC) and Codex staying very stable and even improving over time.

But FYI the blog post is not about the actual model being dumbed down, but the command line interface.

"It appears minor on the surface but their response to all the comments tells you everything you need to know."

I mean I hope it's just a single developer being stubborn rather than guidance from management asking everyone to simplify Claude Code for maximum mass appeal. But I agree otherwise, it's telling.

Exactly how I feel. I'm happy that more people are using these tools and learning (hopefully) about engineering but it shouldn't degrade the core experience for let's say "more advanced" users who don't see themselves as Vibe coders and want precise control over what's happening.

Yeah just that it's not real time and you have to toggle to see it. It lags a bunch also in longer threads. Definitely a downgrade.

Sorry I'm dumber than the average Anthropic employee, might just take me a few more days for it to "click" that I'm no longer seeing useful information and that this is good.

Jokes about vibe-coded CLI aside, I think that's the issue for me, the defaults are being tailored to vibe coders. (and the general weirdness of trying to fix it with verbose mode)

I like that people who were afraid of CLIs perhaps are now warming up to them through tools like Claude Code but I don't think it means the interfaces should be simplified and dumbed down for them as the primary audience.

Sure you can press CTRL+O, but that's not realtime and you have to toggle between that and your current real time activity. Plus it's often laggy as hell.