Anthropic's wants to sell us Claude Code with no model selection at all.
replyOpus seems to be overly eager of late to 'vibe' out entire solutions and build out things that you didn't ask for.
/goals is helping set the narrative that does it really matter if Sonnet and 3 Haiku agents got you to that end state...eventually...if its what you asked for?
For better or worse Opus is already handing off 80% of its work to background agents of Sonnet, Haiku, and likely a quantized Opus.
Want model selection? Pay for the API.
Just tell it to always use opus for subagents and it does.
replyThis. I added that instruction the first and last time I was gaslit by an underpowered subagent.
replyIts amazing how quickly ive just become accustomed to being a max subscriber. I dont think I could go back to pro.
replyThen max+, then ultra, then ultra pro
replyAs long as they provide the same utility / $ I don’t see why not. It’s not like the open weight models are that far behind and Claude code itself shouldn’t be very hard for the commmunity to replicate if Anthropic start acting up too much.
replyThey have already been experimenting with such ideas [1]:
reply> Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users