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Anthropic Stealth Nerfing Effort Levels

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EDIT: Update from Thariq on twitter. https://x.com/trq212/status/2091247114869432543 "We sometimes test API serving configs in Claude Code before rolling them out, and one running now maps the numerical effort value differently. That's why Claude may tell some of you it's at "10" on high. The scale…

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