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Re:Something is afoot in the land of Qwen by wood_spirit on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:47PM (#47252826)
Yeah that happened to me with Claude code opus 4.6 1M for the first time today. I had to check the model hadn’t changed. It was weird. I was imagining that maybe anthropic have a way of deciding how much resource a user actually gets and they had downgraded me suddenly or something.
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Re:Something is afoot in the land of Qwen by e1g on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @03:28PM (#47253344)
Claude Code recently downgraded the default thinking level to “medium”, so it’s worth checking your settings.
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Re:Something is afoot in the land of Qwen by nekitamo on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @06:02PM (#47255243)
Thank you. The difference was quite noticeable today.
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Re:Something is afoot in the land of Qwen by wood_spirit on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:41AM (#47258334)
Thank you thank you you give me hope :)

But how do you see the current thinking level and how do you change it? I’ve been clicking around and searching and adding “effortLevel”:”high” to .claude/settings.json but no idea if this actually has any effect etc.

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Re:Something is afoot in the land of Qwen by varshar on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:51AM (#47259271)
As per Anthropic support (for Mac and Linux respectively) -

echo 'export ANTHROPIC_EFFORT="high"' >> ~/.zshrc source ~/.zshrc

echo 'export ANTHROPIC_EFFORT="high"' >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc

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Re:Something is afoot in the land of Qwen by nnoremap on Thursday March 05, 2026 @09:12AM (#47261738)
Or the 2026 version: 'Hey Claude set your thinking level to high.'
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Re:Something is afoot in the land of Qwen by joecool1029 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:59AM (#47258448)
recently being within the past 24 hours lol: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1....
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Re:Something is afoot in the land of Qwen by darkwater on Thursday March 05, 2026 @02:46AM (#47258821)
> Re-introduced the "ultrathink" keyword to enable high effort for the next tur

Doh.

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