Fair point on tone. It's a bit of a bind isn't it? When you come with a well-researched issue as OP did, you get this bland corporate nonsense "don't believe your lyin' eyes, we didn't change anything major, you can fix it in settings."

How should you actually communicate in such a way that you are actually heard when this is the default wall you hit?

The author is in this thread saying every suggested setting is already maxed. The response is "try these settings." What's the productive version of pointing out that the answer doesn't address the evidence? Genuine question. I linked my repo because it's the most concrete example I have.

Just use a different tool or stop vibe coding, it’s not that hard. I really don’t understand the logic of filing bug reports against the black box of AI

People file tickets against closed source "black box" systems all the time. You could just as well say: Stop using MS SQL, just use a different tool, it's not that hard.

Equivalent of filing a ticket against the slot machine when you lose more often than expected

Well now you're just being silly and I can't take you seriously.

The only "black box" here is Anthropic. At least an LLM's performance and consistency can be established by statistical methods.

I read the entire performance degradation report in the OP, and Boris's response, and it seems that the overwhelming majority of the report's findings can indeed be explained by the `showThinkingSummaries` option being off by default as of recently.

Is somebody saying "you're holding it wrong" a "people willing to help"?

They are if you are, in fact, holding it wrong.

As was the usual case in most of the few years LLMs existed in this world.

Think not of iPhone antennas - think of a humble hammer. A hammer has three ends to hold by, and no amount of UI/UX and product design thinking will make the end you like to hold to be a good choice when you want to drive a Torx screw.

You're holding it absolutely right!

The stated policy of HN is "don't be mean to the openclaw people", let's see if it generalizes.