Over two days of usage Opus 4.6 for me has been a far less enjoyable experience than 4.5. 4.6 seemingly thinks for several minutes with no clear reason to do so, launches explore agents for near every task regardless of scope, and often hits the context window before its even decided on a course of action to take, mostly due to excessive thinking tokens on Medium/High effort. While the quality of output does seem higher and more consistent, the model overall is working out to be a net loss in productivity. Switching to Low effort does improve session times, yet atm Opus even on Low just used 11k tokens on the fourth action its taken to think, 7 mins and 45 seconds of time to do so, all after first launching an Explore agent then reading 2 files of ~500 lines combined from the two files that matter. High specifically is borderline unusable, thinking tokens alone repeatedly exceeded the default 32k output token limit several times, something I never experienced on Opus 4.5. Atm I’m using the Max 20x plan, yet I don’t think I’ll be hitting the usage limit this week simply cause it would take too long to do so. Is this something anyone else is experiencing? It does appear there’s several reports of higher token usage at the least, though its less clear when it comes to output speed. submitted by /u/FireKahuna
Originally posted by u/FireKahuna on r/ClaudeCode
You must log in or # to comment.