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Opus 4.6

7 items · started 2026-08-31 · closed 2026-09-07

  1. I’m a physician and medical affairs exec who’s been unemployed for 16 months and using Claude heavily for job search work. Over those months I started documenting a pattern: Claude assessing my fitness for jobs I didn’t ask it to evaluate,…

  2. Since yesterday it stopped working, even for opus 4.6 It was so good to know what is actually going on behind the scenes with all the insight text.

  3. I primarily use Claude for creative writing purposes and fictional roleplay (think like a 1 person D&D campaign but with writing out actions instead of rolling dice). The problem is that Adaptive Thinking determines this to be a low effort…

  4. For both Opus 4.6 and 5, the thinking block is gone, and the extended thinking toggle option has disappeared from Claude Code. The CoT was really why I was sticking with Anthropic instead of switching fully to GPT--I rely on it to make sur…

  5. kept asking actually hard questions in claude code (desktop app) the past couple days and half the time it would answer instantly, no thinking block at all. then a throwaway "test" session thinks on literally one word.

  6. /model claude-opus-4-6[1M] If Opus 5 or Fable 5 is bitching that it won't do something, just switch to Opus 4.6 ... it's like having a coworker that is not giving you attitude.

  7. When I was in elementary school, I started randomly struggling with math at the beginning of one school year. We went to a parent teacher conference and the Principal stopped in to observe.

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