AI Reddit — 2026-04-16#

The Buzz#

The community finally has hard data to back up the “vibes” that Claude Code got perceptibly worse recently. An AMD engineer analyzed over 6,800 sessions and proved that Anthropic silently dropped the default thinking effort to ‘medium’, causing a massive spike in blind edits and unexpected API costs. It is a stark reminder that relying on a single frontier model with zero fallback is a massive liability when lab behavior changes unannounced.