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Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
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So Anthropic have made a change that prevented people from wasting tokens? I'm sure they'll be very keen to reverse that.
Showing the tool call string does not waste tokens.
That’s just how they display information to the user — tool calls no longer show arguments unless they need use permissions, and they’re often hidden entirely being “4 tools called”.
As per the article, knowing when the tool is reading totally unrelated files allows devs to cancel the workflow early before it churns thousands of tokens on output that is based on totally incorrect information
Right, I may have misinterpreted the OP is wasted token in the tool call display, not as you mentioned the correction of issues.
I noticed the new Claude is much less token efficient in general too, so perhaps they're trying to sell that new 6x more expensive fast mode.