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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 m
by 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 agoClaude Code recently downgraded the default thinking level to “medium”, so it’s worth checking your settings.
- nekitamo 8mo agoThank you. The difference was quite noticeable today.
- wood_spirit 8mo agoThank 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 agoAs 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 agoOr the 2026 version: 'Hey Claude set your thinking level to high.'
- joecool1029 8mo agorecently 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.