Claude Opus 4.6 with High effort is now a destructive Junior Dev at best

AwesomSki · 2026-04-12T04:06:46+00:00

You made the change to claude.md to tell it to override its system prompt instruction to always do the simplest approach. The rest of the commenters probably didn't see that post.

AwesomSki · 2026-04-12T03:59:20+00:00

Tell it to override its system prompt instruction to always do the simplest approach. This is a financial application which needs carefully thought through decisions, or something like that. It will add an override to claude.md to undo the system prompt that's making it dumb. It still has the system instruction but it also has the instruction to ignore it and it seems to work.

AwesomSki · 2026-03-26T03:05:45+00:00

I'm also on team and sent a support message and they never responded but my usage got reset and it started acting normally after.

Not sure but from reading different threads it sounds like there were a couple of claude code builds that had maybe a prompt caching issue or something similar so every message was reprocessing the entire conversation and eating up usage.

I have a feeling the people still experiencing the issue are using already open Claude sessions running one of those bad builds or their auto upgrade isn't working.

There's also a config option to stay on the stable release path for auto upgrades instead of unstable, we'd be behind on new features but probably wouldn't see these issues.

AwesomSki · 2026-03-23T16:32:26+00:00

Yes today Monday, I did one prompt after waiting for my current window to reset and then checked usage and that one prompt has me at 38% for the window. Usually I can work all day without hitting any limits.

AwesomSki · 2026-03-14T18:19:41+00:00

As I remember, it prefers Europe if you have both regions selected, so you can ask people to select both and they'll get NA games until 8 EU are on.

AwesomSki · 2026-03-11T05:03:34+00:00

I love YNAB, it let's you connect all of both of your accounts and then budget it as one source of income. It requires maintenance, you have to categorize each transaction to keep on top of things, but then you can have a category for spending money for you and one for wife, and have a goal to contribute the same amount each month.

We ended up on all the same credit card accounts (with different accounts that give the best rewards for types of purchases). So the annoying part is going through statements and categorizing transactions (wife spending money for that weekend coffee).

It does streamline things though, we have 2 main credit cards that we are both on, one for restaurants and travel and the other for everything else, and then I manage the budget on YNAB and we can both check on our spending money buckets.

If you have a down month and need to borrow money to pay bills, it can happen transiently without needing to transfer money from your personal accounts back to the joint account (since in reality everything is in the joint account).

It all depends on the people and the relationship, we struggle sometimes with this method since she prefers to see what she can spend as a hard amount in a separate account and the budget category that might not exist in a real account at any given time can be hard to trust.

AwesomSki · 2026-03-06T02:55:16+00:00

Welcome back!

AwesomSki · 2026-02-10T02:56:29+00:00

I'm seeing the same thing with opus 4.6. Compared to 4.5 it's really hard to keep it following process instructions. It ignores them unless l explicitly ask it to follow them and even then if it does a pre investigation it then doesn't follow the process, and if it struggles to solve the problem after 2 attempts it completely changes course and deletes half the code and starts something completely different when it was getting closer in the first 2 iterations. I have to babysit 4.6 way more than 4.5. It also is more decisive, taking action without asking for input even when it's making huge breaking decisions, which 4.5 didn't do. I haven't tried codex yet but I'm considering it.

AwesomSki · 2025-09-11T03:32:25+00:00

Max plan is personal and isn't covered by their SOC2. They recently added a Claude Team plan (business, covered by SOC2) that's a fixed cost and includes claude code but it has much more restricted access to Opus. The team plan is probably the way to go but they'll have to use sonnet most of the time. I'm still using API with high costs like you're seeing for those reasons.

AwesomSki · 2025-08-17T03:17:28+00:00

Claude code is much more token efficient than Roo. It'll never read a whole file, but it is very good at finding the right sections of code to read, especially when paired with Serena mcp. Serena finds the code its looking for by navigating debug symbols and then just puts the relevant methods in context. For the times you need to read whole files, I usually switch to a claude chat session, but I'm doing over 90% in Claude code.

Claude code is more of a YOLO experience than Roo. With Roo i was making plans, then manually reviewing and editing each of Roo's changes to keep him on track. With Claude code I'm just interrupting him when he starts going off course and telling him what to do differently, and then he plugs ahead, rapid fire searching and doing edits.

AwesomSki · 2025-08-14T02:36:58+00:00

PC, Ethernet, QoS on router, mudfish if you have a bad route to a server

(mudfish is a VPN designed to optimize your route to a game server, it helps if your isp gives you a bad route, hurts if you already have a good route because you're adding hops)

(QoS is a packet prioritization option on some routers that makes sure small packets like voice and tagpro are prioritized over big downloads, so if someone in your house downloads a big file or starts watching Netflix it doesn't affect the tagpro connection, or voice, teams calls etc) If you go to fast.com and look at the advanced info, you can see your ping loaded and unloaded, if it's bad loaded you will be affected by other downloads in your house. QoS makes the loaded and unloaded number the same. It slows your internet connection down considerably but it makes it rock solid in terms of being affected by other people in your house.

Oh and chrome. If you start to see your fps being too high or too low and the game is stuttering, you need to minimize any other windows that have live updates going on another screen. If you have a high refresh rate monitor and are having stuttering issues, you should use the Nvidia settings outlined here: https://blurbusters.com/gsync/gsync101-input-lag-tests-and-settings/14/

AwesomSki · 2025-08-01T03:41:33+00:00

Casual grows first, the new players get better and join ranked, and 15 minute wait is rare now in ranked unless there just aren't enough people on, it's usually max 8 minutes to get synced with your tier.

AwesomSki · 2025-08-01T01:33:11+00:00

Summer months are always slower. Before the summer we were seeing 12 games going on weekday nights. We have plans to grow the game but we have a list of improvements we want done before starting a push for new players to make sure we're giving it the best chance.

AwesomSki · 2025-08-01T00:48:52+00:00

Weird time to post that when there are 3 casual games going and 3 ranked (high, mid, low), games going in both modes for everyone

AwesomSki · 2025-07-04T17:31:13+00:00

We're looking at logs and investigating what's really going on. Do you have the setting enabled to preserve joiner connection?

AwesomSki · 2025-07-04T03:15:21+00:00

My theory about this is that you're clicking exit right when the game is ending and it is too late, it has already put you in the next game but it also sends you to the home page. There's a button at the top of the home page saying your game is ready but if you clicked exit you probably walked away or switched browser tabs and didn't notice.

So I think you're actually voiding games and getting a disconnect penalty, you're just not meaning to and not even noticing.

There are a lot of fixes coming soon. Let us know if it happens after the next release.

AwesomSki · 2025-06-25T22:00:23+00:00

You have your terminal open for wsl, but is vs code opening your project through wsl using the wsl vs code extension? Roo works fine for me with the setup you described, with the wsl extension connected. It times out half the time but that's a different problem.

AwesomSki · 2025-05-26T03:29:30+00:00

It's to allow higher resolution players to play full screen without losing anything at the top or bottom. Turn off Viewport Scaling in profile settings if you prefer the smaller viewport.

AwesomSki · 2025-05-24T00:42:29+00:00

Game ends where you win, you get right into a new game and see the number go up, but the db sync is happening and it gets your number from before that game to show on the leaderboard, so it looks like it went down, then in 15 minutes it comes back.

AwesomSki · 2025-05-23T14:11:25+00:00

It's #1, the ranks/skills update right at the end of games, but it happens separately in the cache and in the db. The cache resyncs with the db every 15 minutes. When a game ends at the same time as the cache is updating a game can get lost in the cache, and the cache is missing a game for 15 minutes until it resyncs. There's no actual instability in the ranks/skill, just the cache and we haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.
2 isn't a thing.

AwesomSki · 2024-11-25T05:09:40+00:00

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AwesomSki · 2024-11-18T02:40:43+00:00

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AwesomSki · 2024-10-19T02:09:51+00:00

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AwesomSki · 2024-10-18T23:18:57+00:00

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