Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates

Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by ai_slop_hater on Monday April 06, 2026 @02:31PM (#47664916)

> You can add a bias to make it more or less likely for a model to generate a particular token, and that's how budgets work

Do you have a source for this? I am interested in learning more about how this works.

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by koverstreet on Monday April 06, 2026 @02:45PM (#47665102)

It's how temperature/top_p/top_k work. Anthropic also just put out a paper where they were doing a much more advanced version of this, mapping out functional states within the modern and steering with that.

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by ai_slop_hater on Monday April 06, 2026 @02:46PM (#47665118)

Huh, I wonder if that's why you cannot change the temperature when thinking is enabled. Do you have a link for the paper?

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by koverstreet on Monday April 06, 2026 @02:51PM (#47665173)

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotions/index.html

At the actual inference level temperature can be applied at any time - generation is token by token - but that doesn't mean the API necessarily exposes it.

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by ai_slop_hater on Monday April 06, 2026 @02:53PM (#47665203)

Thanks. I was referring to the fact that Anthropic, in their API, prohibits setting temperature when thinking is enabled.

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