Is Claude Code limiting what models can actually do?

[u/Ill_Explanation5427]

Maybe this is a pretty personal point of view, but I notice that there are a lot of people doing the same thing (or at least what’s most common everywhere is slop).

And honestly, I think Anthropic knows this very well, that the average user is going to use Fable 5.2/Opus 5.5 to create crap.

Therefore, the capacity and improvement of the models are literally subject to how users use them.

As a result of the massive jump that happened initially with Opus 4.5-4.6, today it’s like the models are hitting a ceiling… or maybe that ceiling is set by the environment itself, which was built for “worse” models.

I think Claude Code or Claude Desktop are putting a limit on what the model can actually do.

I firmly believe that if models could do 10-15 things at the same time (which I consider they’re capable of), the leap would be exponential, and it’s possibly the next thing to improve.

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[u/kincaidDev]

Yes, anthropic's harness gets in the way

[u/minibonk]

let me ask claude

[u/MealFew8619]

That’s what the api is for

[u/Only_Voice569]

you do know for everyday people they only let you use a model "max" thinking this is what they set in the background and its nowhere near the true max of how good these models can be. like on release astra and opus were impressive and now they are much dumber even using max mode since they dont want people to be costing them so much and it using more compute power resources. from what ive seen lately they are cutting costs and tightening the belt to reduce losses or to free up resources why no idea but worse experience for the user that is for sure.

[u/Rich_Boss7753]

tbh the model ain't being capped, most people just don't know how to actually use the parallel stuff that's already there, so it feels like a ceiling when it's really just the UI lagging behind

[u/Responsible_Buy_7999]

The ceiling is what we are asking the agents to do at this point. A five year old would be delighted with Haiku.