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Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]

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mpoteat · 1790168190 · focus · HN ↗
Sorry folks, this is a rollout artifact, we needed a way to turn this off remotely via feature flags if it broke something, and with telemetry off you don't get those. It's already been fixed as part of v2.1.281 releasing today.
The mod is source available here: <a href="https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/mods/agents-md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/mods/age...
Apologies again folks, this was a fully human error on my part - I should've found a better way to launch with a kill-switch.
1. michaellee8 · 1790168895 · focus · HN ↗
  Really loved this Tibo-level responsiveness, if Anthropic can keep it up with this level of service, I am pretty sure a lot of people will just ditch their ChatGPT subscription and just move to Claude.
  1. jimmaswell · 1790174146 · focus · HN ↗
    Why would I ever do that to myself? My experience with Codex/GPT is fantastic, while my impression of Claude/Opus is that it's longwinded, patronizing, token-inefficient, stops to ask stupid questions every other minute, overcomplicates simple tasks, often poor engineering overall. I don't use it but this is what I see my partner run into who has access to both and compares them often. She has the same assessment.
    michaellee8 · 1790175064 · focus · HN ↗
    Cuz OpenAI has been secretly downgrading models on many accounts, including mine lately. I paid $200 a month since like gpt-5.4, and since Astra released I found the model is somehow acting strange, it is until I checked X I have discovered that OAI is giving Luna level models when I am requesting Sol/Astra, or some piece of s** that is even worse than Luna. I basically had to ran every session with a Pelican test to determine if that session is safe. So I just spun up my Claude $20 and figured that now I can get all the work done just with Opus 5. Let me show you a pelican, by "gpt-6-sol". Cutting usages is one thing, but secretly downgrading models to a level that is not reliable anymore is the last straw. I am not saying other frontier labs (I am talking about you Anthropic) isn't doing this, but their version of downgraded/quantized/reduced effort model is at least usable, probably just slightly dumber, OAI's differences is day and night. <a href="https://imgur.com/a/PDbYdOQ" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/PDbYdOQ
    jimmaswell · 1790177087 · focus · HN ↗
    Somehow this just hasn't happened to me. I use Astra on high all day for fairly intensive game dev tasks, sometimes cranked up depending on the task.
    I have heard ultra thinking might delegate to worse agents for some of its sub-tasks, but I don't use that much anymore since Astra came out. Just high seems good enough to throw most laundry lists at.
    dannyw · 1790185690 · focus · HN ↗
    It’s more likely that GP encountered some bug or corner case or weird experiment conflating than anything intentionally deceptive.
    There’s also the fact that LLMs aren’t perfect, and sometimes even the best models act really stupid sometimes.
    nullbio · 1790177785 · focus · HN ↗
    It's night and day difference, for 3 days, until Anthropic nerf the model.
    troupo · 1790191737 · focus · HN ↗
    > Cuz OpenAI has been secretly downgrading models on many accounts, including mine lately.
    Same with Anthropic. On top of that Anthropic rarely or ever admits any issues, and even if they do, you get like 6 hours of reset. Rmemeber March?

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