Claude Opus 5.5 Users Report 20 Minutes of Zero Feedback in High-Effort Mode
rms80 · x · 2026-09-26
A user reports that prompting Claude Opus 5.5 in high-effort mode produced no visible feedback for 20 minutes — status stuck at "deep in thought with high effort" with only 315 tokens down — highlighting a usability gap: long reasoning runs offer no progress signals at all.
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