I just assume that they realized that they can split the offering, and to charge for the top tier more. (Yes, even more.)

If Claude Code can replace an engineer, it should cost just a bit less than an engineer, not half as much.

Patching's not long for this world; Claude Code has moved to binary releases. Soon, the NPM release will just be a thin wrapper around the binary.

> It's very clear that Anthropic doesn't really want to expose the secret sauce to end users

Meanwhile, I am observing precisely how VS+Copilot works in my OAI logs with zero friction. Plug in your own API key and you can MITM everything via the provider's logging features.

> to end users

To other actors who want to train a distilled version of Claude, more likely.

If they cared about that, they wouldn't expose the thinking blocks to the end-user client in the first place; they'd have the user-side context store hashes to the blocks (stored server-side) instead.

I don't suppose you could share a little on that patching process?

More likely 99.9% of users never press ctrl+o to see the thinking, so they don't consider it important enough to make a setting out of.

Honestly, just use OpenCode. It works with Claude Code Max, and the TUI is 100x better. The only thing that sucks is Compaction.

I thought the source code for the actual CLI was closed source. How are you patching it?

To be fair they have like 10,000 open issues / spam issues, it's probably insane out there for them to filter all of it haha

I think it's more classic enshittification. Currently, as a percentage, still not many devs use it. In a few months or 1-2 years all these products will start to cater to the median developer and start to get dumbed down.