Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

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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