I Miss the Old Claude Code: How Anthropic's Focus Became Bloat

A long-time Claude Code user reflects on how Anthropic's tools, once praised for their focus and conciseness, have become bloated and chatty. The author attributes this to three factors: the verbose Opus 5 model, a constant stream of new features like the refactored `/doctor` command, and marketing that encourages over-engineering. They argue that in an era of cheap code generation, controlling bloat is the biggest challenge, and offer a framework of five questions to combat it.