On: Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

[owebmaster]

There is a theory that the verbosity and comments help getting better results with the current benchmarks. So the models are theoretically getting better but in practice they are getting worse.

[gwerbin → owebmaster]

I believe they are genuinely getting better for fully autonomous tasks. Anthropic seems to have gone all in on this, at the expense of more typical usage patterns.