How long before the "we" is actually a team of agents?
It seems that the Claude Code team has not properly taught Claude how to use teams effectively.
One of the biggest problems I saw with it is that Claude assumes team members are like a real worker, where once they finish a task they should immediately be given the next task. What should really happen is once they finish a task they should be terminated and a new agent should be spawned for the next task.
But considering how SWE-Bench Verified seems to be the tech press' favourite benchmark to cite, it's surprising that they didn't try to confound the inevitable "Opus 4.6 Releases With Disappointing 0.1% DROP on SWE-Bench Verified" headlines.
I had two different PRs with some odd edge case (thankfully catched by tests), 4.5 kept running in circles, kept creating test files and running `node -e` or `python 3` scripts all over and couldn't progress.
4.6 thought and thought in both cases around 10 minutes and found a 2 line fix for a very complex and hard to catch regression in the data flow without having to test, just thinking.
https://youtu.be/8brENzmq1pE?t=1544
I feel like everyone is counting chickens before they hatch here with all the doomsday predictions and extrapolating LLM capability into infinity.
People that seem to overhype this seem to either be non-technical or are just making landing pages.
I didn't see any notes but I guess this is also true for "max" effort level (https://code.claude.com/docs/en/model-config#adjust-effort-l...)? I only see low, medium and high.
My experience is the opposite, it is the only LLM I find remotely tolerable to have collaborative discussions with like a coworker, whereas ChatGPT by far is the most insufferable twat constantly and loudly asking to get punched in the face.
Claude figured out zig’s ArrayList and io changes a couple weeks ago.
It felt like it got better then very dumb again the last few days.
> Long-running conversations and agentic tasks often hit the context window. Context compaction automatically summarizes and replaces older context when the conversation approaches a configurable threshold, letting Claude perform longer tasks without hitting limits.
Not having to hand roll this would be incredible. One of the best Claude code features tbh.