
Is Claude Opus 5.5 Nerfed? Claude Code Ignores Your effortLevel. How to Fix It
Opus 5.5 defaults to medium effort, and Claude Code 2.1.317 changed subagent effort on Nov 3. The settings fix, plus a script to test it yourself.

Opus 5.5 defaults to medium effort, and Claude Code 2.1.317 changed subagent effort on Nov 3. The settings fix, plus a script to test it yourself.

OpenAI's own report: Astra hit ~10% of rubric items on safety tasks vs ~16% otherwise, and its monitors didn't flag it. Six checks that catch it.

That 290MB is one cropped Task Manager screenshot, so measure your own Discord client, change the settings worth changing and skip Ripcord.

Devs who learned with AI scored 17 points lower, worst on debugging. The ones who kept pasting errors back into the AI did worse still: about 24%.

CPython's JIT leaves main early in the 3.16 cycle. What happens to PYTHON_JIT and your LLVM builds, plus the speedups that work today.

Linux is dropping the Assisted-by tag while QGIS bans AI code. Torvalds wrote patches with Claude Code, and his rule fits in your CONTRIBUTING.md.

Iosevka vs JetBrains Mono vs Fira Code, from the source files: 142 vs 119 columns at 14px, plus VS Code settings and a build that fixes the width.

Apple and Google now let you export passkeys, so lock-in is mostly solved. One phone holding all of them isn't. Here's the two-key backup setup.

About 40 of ~50 AI-tagged QGIS PRs were closed before the ban. How Gentoo, QEMU, Godot, LLVM and the Linux kernel handle AI code.

Tahoe still holds UNIX 03 and macOS 27 isn't registered. Plus why the badge never stopped sed -i '' from breaking your Linux CI, and the portable fix.

Glyph and Fernando Borretti say AI is draining something human out of programming, and HN pushed back. Plus a git one-liner that shows how alone you ship.

Sonnet 5.5 cost 14x more per run than Haiku 5.5 and passed no more runs. What fixed it was telling the agent which helper in the repo was dead.

Deno Deploy shuts down in six months and the announcement never mentions Deno KV. What's confirmed, what isn't, and the grep to run this week.

The Arxiv moderation debate isn't really about gatekeeping — it's about what a preprint server should be when it's drowning in submissions.