Claude Code got better

In the swarm of "claude sucks", "Claude Pro is useless", "I'm canceling my subscription", I came to share a different opinion. Don't know if anyone else noticed, but Claude Code suddenly (started noticing last night) got a lot better for some reason.

I am using it daily on some pretty complex projects. I've always been using Opus 4.6 with 1m context (since it rolled out), but there's a noticeable difference in how it executes tasks, how it plans and the quality of the code it writes. It stopped feeling like a "yes man" and it actually pushes back on ideas that wouldn't make sense to implement or suggests simpler approaches if they exist. I don't really have any benchmarks to share, and it might be a subjective feeling, but I'm wondering if anyone else noticed a difference?