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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by stldev on Monday April 06, 2026 @03:29PM (#47665740)
You can't. This is Anthropic leveraging their dials, and ignoring their customers for weeks.

Switch providers.

Anecdotally, I've had no luck attempting to revert to prior behavior using either high/max level thinking (opus) or prompting. The web interface for me though doesn't seem problematic when using opus extended.

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by taylorfinley on Monday April 06, 2026 @07:19PM (#47668689)
I've actually switched back to the web chat UI and copying Python files for much of my work because CC has been so nerfed.
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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by mlrtime on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @06:47AM (#47673192)
Agreed, the only feedback is switching... however things move fast. Unfortunately that means for me is subscribing or using API for many providers and then just switching models when one gets worse.

If you have a paid plan, you may need to pay for more than one, and "hopefully" the drop in usage (not income) is a good enough signal that there is a issue.

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