'How Anthropic Can Save Opus 4.7 With One Change' — Community Criticizes Auto-Thinking Budget

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A r/ClaudeAI post (106 upvotes, 62 comments) argues Opus 4.7's auto-thinking feature causes shallow answers on complex problems because the model now decides its own thinking budget rather than the user. The critique: when people report '4.7 gives me shallow answers,' it's because the model decided their problem wasn't worth deep reasoning. The post proposes giving users direct control over thinking depth, highlighting a tension between token efficiency and user agency in reasoning models.