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That sounds awfully similar to what Opus 4.6 does on my tasks sometimes. > Blah blah blah (second guesses its own reasoning half a dozen times then goes). Actu

That sounds awfully similar to what Opus 4.6 does on my tasks sometimes. > Blah blah blah (second guesses its own reasoning half a dozen times then goes). Actually, it would be a simpler to just ... Specifically on Antigravity, I've noticed it doing that trying to "save time" to stay within some artificial deadline. It might have something to do with the system messages and the reinforcement/realignment messages that are interwoven into the context (but never displayed to end-users) to keep the agents on task.

wood_spirit 8mo ago
Yeah that happened to me with Claude code opus 4.6 1M for the first time today. I had to check the model hadn’t changed. It was weird. I was imagining that maybe anthropic have a way of deciding how much resource a user actually gets and they had downgraded me suddenly or something.
- e1g 8mo ago
  Claude Code recently downgraded the default thinking level to “medium”, so it’s worth checking your settings.
  - nekitamo 8mo ago
    Thank you. The difference was quite noticeable today.
  - wood_spirit 8mo ago
    Thank you thank you you give me hope :) But how do you see the current thinking level and how do you change it? I’ve been clicking around and searching and adding “effortLevel”:”high” to .claude/settings.json but no idea if this actually has any effect etc.
    - varshar 8mo ago
      As per Anthropic support (for Mac and Linux respectively) - $ echo 'export ANTHROPIC_EFFORT="high"' >> ~/.zshrc source ~/.zshrc $ echo 'export ANTHROPIC_EFFORT="high"' >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc I prefer settings.json (VSCode) - "claudeCode.environmentVariables": [ { "name": "ANTHROPIC_MODEL", "value": "claude-opus-4-6" }, { "name": "CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL", "value": "high" } ], ...
      - nnoremap 8mo ago
        Or the 2026 version: 'Hey Claude set your thinking level to high.'
  - joecool1029 8mo ago
    recently being within the past 24 hours lol: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.68 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1....
    - darkwater 8mo ago
      > Re-introduced the "ultrathink" keyword to enable high effort for the next tur Doh.
jtonz 8mo ago
As someone that started using Co-work, I feel like I am going insane with the frequency that I have to keep telling it to stay on task. If you ask it to do something laborious like review a bunch of websites for specific content it will constantly give up, providing you information on how you can continue the process yourself to save time. Its maddening.
- beepbooptheory 8mo ago
  Why keep using it then? I simply still read websites. It's not always great but sounds better than whatever that weird dynamic is!
- throwup238 8mo ago
  In my experience all of the models do that. It's one of the most infuriating things about using them, especially when I spend hours putting together a massive spec/implementation plan and then have to sit there babysitting it going "are you sure phase 1 is done?" and "continue to phase 2" I tend to work on things where there is a massive amount of code to write but once the architecture is laid down, it's just mechanical work, so this behavior is particularly frustrating.
  - dripdry45 8mo ago
    I hope you will excuse my ignorance on this subject, so as a learning question for me: is it possible to add what you put there as an absolute condition, that all available functions and data are present as an overarching mandate, and it’s simply plug and chug?
    - elcritch 8mo ago
      Recently it seems that even if you add those conditions the LLMs will tend to ignore them. So you have to repeatedly prompt them. Sometimes string or emphatic language will help them keep it “in mind”.
      - girvo 8mo ago
jasonjmcghee 8mo ago
I've found antigravity to be completely unusable. It's amazing how much foundational prompting and harness matters.
varispeed 8mo ago
Opus 4.6 found in my documentation how to flash the device and wanted to be clever and helpful and flash it for me after doing series of fixes. I've got used to approving commands and missed that one. So it bricked it. Then I wrote extra instructions saying flashing of any kind is forbidden. Few days later it did again and apologised...
mavamaarten 8mo ago
Haha yeah I've had this happen to me too (inside copilot on GitHub). I ask it to make a field nullable, and give it some pointers on how to implement that change. It just decided halfway that, nah, removing the field altogether means you don't have to fix the fallout from making that thing nullable. Lmao.

wood_spirit 8mo ago

Yeah that happened to me with Claude code opus 4.6 1M for the first time today. I had to check the model hadn’t changed. It was weird. I was imagining that maybe anthropic have a way of deciding how much resource a user actually gets and they had downgraded me suddenly or something.

e1g 8mo ago
Claude Code recently downgraded the default thinking level to “medium”, so it’s worth checking your settings.
- nekitamo 8mo ago
  Thank you. The difference was quite noticeable today.
- wood_spirit 8mo ago
  Thank you thank you you give me hope :) But how do you see the current thinking level and how do you change it? I’ve been clicking around and searching and adding “effortLevel”:”high” to .claude/settings.json but no idea if this actually has any effect etc.
  - varshar 8mo ago
    As per Anthropic support (for Mac and Linux respectively) - $ echo 'export ANTHROPIC_EFFORT="high"' >> ~/.zshrc source ~/.zshrc $ echo 'export ANTHROPIC_EFFORT="high"' >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc I prefer settings.json (VSCode) - "claudeCode.environmentVariables": [ { "name": "ANTHROPIC_MODEL", "value": "claude-opus-4-6" }, { "name": "CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL", "value": "high" } ], ...
    - nnoremap 8mo ago
      Or the 2026 version: 'Hey Claude set your thinking level to high.'
- joecool1029 8mo ago
  recently being within the past 24 hours lol: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.68 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1....
  - darkwater 8mo ago
    > Re-introduced the "ultrathink" keyword to enable high effort for the next tur Doh.

jtonz 8mo ago

As someone that started using Co-work, I feel like I am going insane with the frequency that I have to keep telling it to stay on task. If you ask it to do something laborious like review a bunch of websites for specific content it will constantly give up, providing you information on how you can continue the process yourself to save time. Its maddening.

beepbooptheory 8mo ago
Why keep using it then? I simply still read websites. It's not always great but sounds better than whatever that weird dynamic is!
throwup238 8mo ago
In my experience all of the models do that. It's one of the most infuriating things about using them, especially when I spend hours putting together a massive spec/implementation plan and then have to sit there babysitting it going "are you sure phase 1 is done?" and "continue to phase 2" I tend to work on things where there is a massive amount of code to write but once the architecture is laid down, it's just mechanical work, so this behavior is particularly frustrating.
- dripdry45 8mo ago
  I hope you will excuse my ignorance on this subject, so as a learning question for me: is it possible to add what you put there as an absolute condition, that all available functions and data are present as an overarching mandate, and it’s simply plug and chug?
  - elcritch 8mo ago
    Recently it seems that even if you add those conditions the LLMs will tend to ignore them. So you have to repeatedly prompt them. Sometimes string or emphatic language will help them keep it “in mind”.
    - girvo 8mo ago

jasonjmcghee 8mo ago

I've found antigravity to be completely unusable. It's amazing how much foundational prompting and harness matters.

varispeed 8mo ago

Opus 4.6 found in my documentation how to flash the device and wanted to be clever and helpful and flash it for me after doing series of fixes. I've got used to approving commands and missed that one. So it bricked it. Then I wrote extra instructions saying flashing of any kind is forbidden. Few days later it did again and apologised...

mavamaarten 8mo ago

Haha yeah I've had this happen to me too (inside copilot on GitHub). I ask it to make a field nullable, and give it some pointers on how to implement that change. It just decided halfway that, nah, removing the field altogether means you don't have to fix the fallout from making that thing nullable. Lmao.