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Anthropic removes forced extended thinking from Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic has quietly disabled forced extended thinking in Claude Opus 4.6, shifting the feature from mandatory to opt-in. The change affects how the model allocates computational resources to reasoning tasks.
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Anthropic has removed forced extended thinking from Claude Opus 4.6, shifting the feature from a mandatory behavior to an optional capability that users must explicitly enable. The change was not announced in release notes and appears to have been discovered by users testing the latest model iterati...
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- r/claudecode
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