Anthropic literally don't allow you to use the 1M context anymore on Sonnet and Opus 4.6 without it being billed as extra usage immediately.

I had 4.5 1M before that so they definitely made it worse.

OpenAI at least gives you the option of using your plan for it. Even if it uses it up more quickly.

Is that why it says rate limit all the time if you switch to a 1M model on Claude now? It kept giving me that so I switched to API account over the weekend for some vibe coding ran up a huuuuge API bill by mistake, whooops.

update: he's in shambles upon hearing the news

or OpenSpec https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec/

I think it's much better

After 2.20.0 of Claude code where they started not showing what files are read / searches are made by default .. I fucking love how easy it was to ditch Claude code for pi.

They're too small to screw you over. But you've got more time until they do at least.

I had a Claude code instance using 55 GB of RAM yesterday.

I capped my extra usage to that free 50$ and hit 108% usage. Nice.

There's no way you're still talking about verbose mode.. this is insane.

Saw this the other day and loved it. Especially seeing Opus 4.5 degrading prior to the 4.6 release (IIRC) and Codex staying very stable and even improving over time.

But FYI the blog post is not about the actual model being dumbed down, but the command line interface.

"It appears minor on the surface but their response to all the comments tells you everything you need to know."

I mean I hope it's just a single developer being stubborn rather than guidance from management asking everyone to simplify Claude Code for maximum mass appeal. But I agree otherwise, it's telling.