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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by kouteiheika on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @10:50AM (#47676322)
> Can I just see the actual thinking (not summarized) so that I can see the actual thinking without a latency cost?

You can't, and Anthropic will never allow it since it allows others to more easily distill Claude (i.e. "distillation attacks"[1] in Anthropic-speak, even though Athropic is doing essentially exactly the same thing[2]; rules for thee but not for me).

[1] -- https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-dist...

[2] -- https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/g-s1-87367/anthropic-authors-...

Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by olejorgenb on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @06:36AM (#47688201)
So this means I can not resume a session older than 30 days properly?
Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by kouteiheika on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @01:21PM (#47693331)
I have no idea; you have to check their docs.

AFAIK what they do is that they calculate a hash of the true thinking trace, save it into a database, and only send those hashes back to you (try to man-in-the-middle Claude Code and you'll see those hashes). So then when you send then back your session's history you include those hashes, they look them up in their database, replace them with the real thinking trace, and hand that off to the LLM to continue generation. (All SOTA LLMs nowadays retain reasoning content from previous turns, including Claude.)

Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by olejorgenb on Thursday April 09, 2026 @10:40AM (#47704405)
I see. If that's just hashes and not encrypted content I can't see how they can resume old sessions properly. IIRC they have a 30 days retention policy and surely the thinking traces must be considered data. Wonder how this works with the zero-retention enterprise plans...
Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by liamsfr on Saturday April 11, 2026 @09:58PM (#47735544)
So we are paying the price for the cost of infra need to protect their asset which was trained on data derived from the work of others while ignoring the same principle? I need this to make sense.