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NoClaude Code · 3 Oct 2025

Sonnet 4.5 indeed acts like a drunken monkey on the math-heavy legacy C++ codebase I'm working on

fritzo on Hacker News

In the thread “Claude was down”, replying to this comment

Helped: Setting environment variable to force Opus model.

Got in the way: Default model switch to Sonnet 4.5.

… I had to set the environment variable ANTHROPIC_MODEL=opus to get opus back. Sonnet 4.5 indeed acts like a drunken monkey on the math-heavy legacy C++ codebase I'm working on.