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The docs suggest not using max effort in most cases to avoid overthinking :shrug:
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They've jumped the shark. I truly can't comprehend why all of these changes were necessary. They had a literal money printing machine that actually got real shit done, really well. Now it's a gamble every time and I am pulling back hard from Anthropic ecosystem.

it's clearly all in your head. 4.6 is just as capable as it used to be. literally no one on the internet has managed to post credulous and real evidence of a nerf

this is just another trendy conspiracy theory that people reinforce because of selection/recency bias. you hear "nerf", your brain overindexes on the next time Claude does poorly. it is the same phenomenon when you notice a new vocabulary word all the time.


It seems clear that it was a money spending machine, not a money printing machine.



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