User Protest Over Removal of Claude's Reasoning Chain
totallyninja · reddit · 2026-08-20
A long-time Claude Max paying customer protests Anthropic's sudden removal of the model's internal thought process display. The user argues this change is user-hostile and significantly reduces output value, suspecting it is driven by legal or competitive fears (such as distillation risks). The user notes that hiding the reasoning process prevents them from spotting key flaws in the model's understanding of their prompts, leading to wasted tokens, and urges the product team to restore the feature.
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