Comment by HumanOstrich
19 days ago
Edit ~/.claude/settings.json and add "effortLevel": "medium". Alternatively, you can put it in .claude/settings.json in a project if you want to try it out first.
They recommend this in the announcement[1], but the way they suggest doing it is via a bogus /effort command that doesn't exist. See [2] for full details about thinking effort. It also recommends a bogus way to change effort by using the arrow keys when selecting a model, so don't use that either.
[1]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6
[2]: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/model-config#adjust-effort-l...
Pathetic how they have no support for modifying sampling settings, or even a "logit_bias" so I can ban my claude from using the EM dash (and regular dash), semicolons, or "not". Also will upweight things like exclamation points
Clearly those whose job it is to "monitor" folks use this as their "tell" if someone AI generated something. That's why every major LLM has this particular slop profile. It's infuriating.
I wrote a long winded rant about this bullshit
https://gist.github.com/Hellisotherpeople/71ba712f9f899adcb0...
You can do it via /model and pressing left and right though
That's not a thing, at least not in my installation of Claude Code.
It works for me! (Edited link since original had laptops serial number in it: https://screen.studio/share/3CEvdyji)
Claude Code v2.1.37
EU region, Claude Max 20x plan
Mac -- Tahoe 26.2
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what? Their documentation is hallucinated?
Yep, and their documentation AI assistant will egregiously hallucinate whatever it thinks you want to hear, then repeat itself in a loop when you tell it that it's wrong.
Yesterday I asked a question about a Claude Code setting inside Claude Code, don't recall which, and their builtin documentation skill—something like that—ended up doing a web search and found a wrong answer on a third party site. Later I went to their documentation site and it was right there in the docs. Wonder why they can't bundle an AI-friendly version of their own docs (can't be more than a few hundred KBs compressed?) inside their 174MB executable.
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