This is confusing. ULTRATHINK is a step below /effort max?
ULTRATHINK triggers high effort. /effort max is above high. Calling it ULTRATHINK sounds like it would be the highest mode. If someone has max set and types ULTRATHINK, they're lowering their effort for that turn.
For anyone reading this trying to fix the quality issues, here's what I landed on in ~/.claude/settings.json:
The env field in settings.json persists across sessions without needing /effort max every time.
DISABLE_ADAPTIVE_THINKING is key. That's the system that decides "this looks easy, I'll think less" - and it's frequently wrong. Disabling it gives you a fixed high budget every turn instead of letting the model shortchange itself.
Nothing super noticeable. I've reached 35% in sessions on the 20x plan. Before these changes, 25-30% was pretty normal. I think these changes are best for people who are just past the 5x usage plan, but might be harder to manage if you already have to throttle usage to stay under limits.
I'd still recommend turning off sub agents entirely because it doesn't seem you can control them with /effort and I always find the output to be better with agents off.
There are several settings in my account relating to Copilot that are locked/enabled with a shield and key icon next to it. Any idea how to disable these settings? It's on the same settings/copilot/features page.
This resonates. We run a medical device manufacturing operation. We used an ERP for years that claimed to specialize in our industry. In practice it was a bloated system designed by people who'd never worked on a manufacturing floor. Bank reconciliation felt like threading a needle in the dark. Simple tasks required five nested menus.
So we built our own. Went live on it a few months ago. The bugs we catch now are ones we catch because we're running real production on it every day. There's no substitute for being the one who has to suffer through your own software.
I built an ERP system called PAX ERP mostly solo for small manufacturers in the USA.
Stack is React, Express, PostgreSQL, all on AWS with a React build pipeline through GitHub Actions. It handles inventory, work orders (MRP), purchasing, GAAP accounting, email campaigns, CRM, shipping (FDX or UPS), etc.
AI has been useful (I use Claude Code, mainly Haiku model), but only if I'm steering it carefully and reviewing everything. It is obviously not great at system design, so I still need to know exactly what I'm trying to do. If I don't it'll often make things overly complicated or focus on edge cases that don't really exist.
It helps a lot with: Writing/refactoring SQL, Making new API routes based on my CRUD template, Creating new frontend components from specs and existing templates, Debugging and explaining unexpected behavior, Integrating third-party APIs (Fedex for shipping, Resend for emails). It understands their documentation easily and helps connect the pieces.
In practice, it feels like a fancy copy/paste (new routes, components) or a helpful assistant. With careful guidance and review, it's a real efficiency boost, especially solo.
I’ve been building a custom ERP/CRM system for the medical device manufacturing company I work at. We went through two commercial ERPs over the years and both were slow and painful to customize, so I started building a simpler replacement.
It handles inventory, work orders (MRP), purchasing, sales orders, accounting, everything we need. After a couple failed attempts earlier on, I rebuilt it with a much simpler stack and it’s now running the company day to day.
Still learning a lot about manufacturing workflows and how much unnecessary complexity most ERP systems accumulate. Now I'm trying to focus on ways that the software can help other companies in a similar ERP boat that we were some years ago.
Completely agree. I found freedom, truth, comfort in Christ. From that relationship with God stems everything we need. “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” and “the truth will set you free.”
It's not good for us to be completely alone. We are social beings, and community is part of who we are. We search for truth in relationships, politics, games, drugs, anything. We search to the end of ourselves but end up with the same emptiness and questions. The truth, wholeness, community, and love we need and seek is often in the place we're too afraid to look - the Christian church. Even if you're not religious, the community and familial elements of a good Christian church are empowering. Put any biases you might have aside and take a step in. It might just be the real thing that finally makes us whole.
The Christian church has nothing to do with truth. Sure it might offer community, but it is a community based on dogma, on faith, not truth. Why was humanity banished from the garden? For eating from the tree of knowledge. Join a Promethean cult if you can find it OP.
I am so conflicted with this stuff. You let old men tell you how to live your life, but it makes people so happy. People hate having freedom. Of course they are lying too, but those lies make people happy.
Makes sense. I've found that Christianity, at its core, is the opposite. Freedom isn't forfeited, but actually found in one simple truth. The one truth actually leads to freedom: “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” and also that “the truth will set you free.”
It's been a dream of mine for years to custom-build a system for the company I worked for that would solve all of their problems. They regularly struggled to load reports or do simple tasks in their past 2 ERP systems, sometimes because it was too slow, too complicated, or just not possible, all while paying a hefty monthly bill. I tried to make such a system in 2019, but failed. I learned it's hard to design a system across several pieces of tech (I researched tech stacks so thoroughly and was sure I picked the right tools). Again in 2020, same result - this time I learned that an over-engineered frontend was too much to keep up with as an individual. Again in 2023 - proof of concept finally had traction (turns out fewer pieces of the tech stack meant I could do a lot more as 1 person), bulk of the system developed in 2024, with simple system design, simple yet proven security and hosting methods, and simply designed manufacturing workflows (only building what was needed in order to do real manufacturing work). The system is now fully live for the company as their primary ERP, they love it. CPA approved, purchaser approved, floor worker approved, sales team approved - everyone genuinely loves the system - especially compared to their last.
So, my work is "done" in that I've accomplished to do what I set out to do, yet I'd like to turn it into something that can be helpful to a bigger set of people.
I'd love to hear from people who have grown businesses, and the approaches they took to market.
I'd also love to talk with system testers who are willing to review or look through a system to see where we can improve.
ULTRATHINK triggers high effort. /effort max is above high. Calling it ULTRATHINK sounds like it would be the highest mode. If someone has max set and types ULTRATHINK, they're lowering their effort for that turn.
For anyone reading this trying to fix the quality issues, here's what I landed on in ~/.claude/settings.json:
The env field in settings.json persists across sessions without needing /effort max every time.DISABLE_ADAPTIVE_THINKING is key. That's the system that decides "this looks easy, I'll think less" - and it's frequently wrong. Disabling it gives you a fixed high budget every turn instead of letting the model shortchange itself.
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