Comment by powera
9 days ago
Between this and 4.6's tendency to do so much more "exploratory" work, I am back to using ChatGPT Codex for some tasks.
Two months ago, Claude was great for "here is a specific task I want you to do to this file". Today, they seem to be pivoting towards "I don't know how to code but want this feature" usage. Which might be a good product decision, but makes it worse as a substitute for writing the code myself.
Have you played with the effort setting? I'm finding medium effort on 4.6 to give more satisfactory results for that kind of thing.
I feel the exact same way. Trying to cater to the "no-code" crowd is blurring the product's focus. It seems they've stuffed the system prompt with "be creative and explore" instructions, which kills determinism - so now we have to burn tokens just to tell it: "Don't think, just write the code"
Same here, both Claude Code due to this change, and how Opus 4.6 is setup, they think they can do things autonomously. But in my experience, they really can't. Letting it overthink something while being on the wrong track is what leads to AI slop.