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

Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by ctoth on Monday April 06, 2026 @02:32PM (#47664933)

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.

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by wonnage on Monday April 06, 2026 @03:15PM (#47665498)

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

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by geysersam on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:38PM (#47666723)

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.

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by wonnage on Monday April 06, 2026 @06:45PM (#47668357)

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

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by HumanOstrich on Monday April 06, 2026 @07:20PM (#47668701)

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

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by HumanOstrich on Monday April 06, 2026 @07:19PM (#47668694)

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

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by enraged_camel on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:46PM (#47666836)

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.

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