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For me, getting Claude Code working properly two days in a row (12 -14 hours per day) is still a challenge.

Let it running in parallel "unwatched" will end up with nothing but a pile of code that will have to be re-written.

It was not that way at the beginning, when I started in May 24th (2 days post Sonnet/Opus 4 announcement), however, last 2 - 3 weeks, they've tweaked they system substantially (I mean I have no other explanation) and its behavior is despicable.

I have see a few on X complaining the same (along with far more about GPT o3 and 4o) but the culture of "opaque transparency" in the AI industry left us with nothing but guesses.

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FWIW, this has been the way of working with AI products since the beginning. For example, chatgpt has waxed and waned even without model updates due to how the context gearing behind the web interface.

You can see in various subreddits the spikes in complaints--and there is definitely one in week(s) on Claude Code.

I generally take this as a sign of needing to get more skilled at context control and validation. And that by doing so, you'll be in only a better place once the product you're relying returns to baseline or leaps ahead again.

thanks. I suspect those tuning take place in order to maintain cost/experience level, that is, keeping a "good enough" product while cutting cost of inference.

I also suspect it is tuned for ultimate experience upon release to grade well on benchmarks and online reports, then tuned back to a level they can bear as they burn investors money.

the need is clear, I am just expecting transparency.