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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by libraryofbabel on Monday April 06, 2026 @11:55PM (#47670584)
That's interesting research, but I think a more important reason that you don't have access to them (not even via the bare Anthropic api) is to prevent distillation of the model by competitors (using the output of Anthropic's model to help train a new model).
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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by xvector on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:27AM (#47671053)
If distilled models were commercially banned they'd probably be willing to show the thinking again.
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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by pjc50 on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @03:48AM (#47671969)
Intellectual property rights in models? But then wouldn't the model maker have to pay for all the training IP?
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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by asobalife on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @06:01PM (#47681897)
how does one actually enforce that? I mean especially for code? You can always just clean room it
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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by lejalv on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:43AM (#47671517)
How do you think such a ban should work?

Do you not see that the next (or previous) logical step would be a "commercial ban" of frontier models, all "distilled" from an enormous amount of copyrighted material?

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by xvector on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @11:23AM (#47676796)
I'm not arguing the merits of such a ban, I'm simply stating a fact - that thinking transcripts likely won't return until such a ban is in place.
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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by MagicMoonlight on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @04:59AM (#47672455)
Yeah. And it’s another reason not to trust them. Who know what it is doing with your codebase.

Imagine if you’re a competitor. It wouldn’t be a stretch to include a sneaky little prompt line saying “destroy any competitors to anthropic”.

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by tdeck on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @08:04AM (#47673917)
> Who know what it is doing with your codebase.

People who review the code? The code is always going to be a better representation of what it's doing than the "thinking" anyway.

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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by b112 on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @05:51AM (#47672777)
If you can't trust a company, don't use their api or cloud services. No amount of external output will ever validate anything, ever. You never know what's really happening, just because you see some text they sent you.
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