Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
0Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Model SwitchingArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.290,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
Unclear What the replacement routine does differently is not known.
What
When you switch models, Claude Code prepares some work in advance. It now does this with a different routine than before, and it no longer labels that step as coming from a model switch.
Why
This affects how cached work is prepared when you change models in the middle of a conversation.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtWhat the replacement routine does differently is not known.
