Claude Code gives me very few models to work with, and that's exactly why I keep going back to it

A personal take on why Claude Code's limited model selection is actually a feature rather than a drawback. The author, who struggles with decision fatigue, argues that most AI coding tools overwhelm users with model pickers before they've typed a single word. Claude Code sidesteps this by offering only Anthropic's own model family — Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, and the newer Fable/Mythos tier — which happen to be among the top-performing coding models anyway. The result is a focused, friction-free experience where every available option is genuinely good.