[Feature Request] Improve Opus 4.6 reasoning for infrastructure/sysadmin task complexity

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 4, 2026 by alexio777 Closed Mar 8, 2026

Bug Description
Title: Claude Opus 4.6 performs at Sonnet 4.5 level for practical sysadmin/infrastructure tasks

When working on a real-world task (setting up QEMU with UEFI boot for a Windows VM on bare metal), Opus 4.6 made several basic mistakes in sequence:

  1. Started QEMU in BIOS mode despite the disk having a GPT/EFI partition layout
  2. Used virtio disk driver which UEFI firmware couldn't find a bootloader on
  3. Forgot to specify -vga std, resulting in "guest has not initialized the display"

Each of these is a well-known QEMU configuration requirement. The model required multiple round-trips with user feedback to correct issues that should have been caught on the
first attempt. For the price point of Opus, I'd expect significantly better reasoning about infrastructure tooling than what Sonnet provides.

Environment Info

  • Platform: win32
  • Terminal: windows-terminal
  • Version: 2.1.68
  • Feedback ID: 2bf05f17-bf8b-4403-9cec-976fdb50408a

Errors

[{"error":"Error: {\"message\":\"Failed to export 45 events (status=429, code=ERR_BAD_REQUEST, Request failed with status code 429)\",\"originalLine\":\"6275\",\"originalColumn\":\"1713\",\"line\":\"6275\",\"column\":\"1713\",\"sourceURL\":\"B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe\",\"stack\":\"Error: Failed to export 45 events (status=429, code=ERR_BAD_REQUEST, Request failed with status code 429)\\n    at doExport (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:6275:1713)\\n    at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)\",\"name\":\"Error\"}\n    at error (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:2421:25029)\n    at <anonymous> (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:118:92465)\n    at A_0 (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:118:93009)\n    at <anonymous> (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:119:17366)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)","timestamp":"2026-03-04T13:07:35.478Z"},{"error":"Error: 1P event logging: 1 events failed to export (status=429, code=ERR_BAD_REQUEST, Request failed with status code 429)\n    at queueFailedEvents (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:6275:2654)\n    at async doExport (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:6275:1561)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)","timestamp":"2026-03-04T13:07:53.690Z"},{"error":"Error: {\"message\":\"Failed to export 1 events (status=429, code=ERR_BAD_REQUEST, Request failed with status code 429)\",\"originalLine\":\"6275\",\"originalColumn\":\"1713\",\"line\":\"6275\",\"column\":\"1713\",\"sourceURL\":\"B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe\",\"stack\":\"Error: Failed to export 1 events (status=429, code=ERR_BAD_REQUEST, Request failed with status code 429)\\n    at doExport (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:6275:1713)\\n    at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)\",\"name\":\"Error\"}\n    at error (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:2421:25029)\n    at <anonymous> (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:118:92465)\n    at A_0 (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:118:93009)\n    at <anonymous> (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:119:17366)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)","timestamp":"2026-03-04T13:07:53.690Z"},{"error":"Error: 1P event logging: 56 events failed to export (status=429, code=ERR_BAD_REQUEST, Request failed with status code 429)\n    at queueFailedEvents (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:6275:2654)\n    at async doExport (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:6275:1561)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)","timestamp":"2026-03-04T13:08:06.969Z"},{"error":"Error: {\"message\":\"Failed to export 56 events (status=429, code=ERR_BAD_REQUEST, Request failed with status code 429)\",\"originalLine\":\"6275\",\"originalColumn\":\"1713\",\"line\":\"6275\",\"column\":\"1713\",\"sourceURL\":\"B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe\",\"stack\":\"Error: Failed to export 56 events (status=429, code=ERR_BAD_REQUEST, Request failed with status code 429)\\n    at doExport (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:6275:1713)\\n    at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)\",\"name\":\"Error\"}\n    at error (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:2421:25029)\n    at <anonymous> (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:118:92465)\n    at A_0 (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:118:93009)\n    at <anonymous> (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:119:17366)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)","timestamp":"2026-03-04T13:08:06.969Z"},{"error":"Error: 1P event logging: 7 events failed to export (status=429, code=ERR_BAD_REQUEST, Request failed with status code 429)\n    at queueFailedEvents (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:6275:2654)\n    at async doExport (B:/~BUN/root/claude.exe:6275:1561)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)","timestamp":"2026-03-04T13:08:31.285Z"},{"error":"Error: {\"message\":\"Failed to export 7 events (status=429, code=ERR_BAD_REQUEST, Request failed with status code 429)\",\"originalLine\":\"6275\",\"originalColumn\":\"1713\",\"line\…

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