It could have been, I'm not 100% sure. It was my 2nd or 3rd project I tried. Others after this have been about the same but with "viewed" instead of "thinking".
I just went to Shakespeare.diy to see what model is used as my default;
you can change that and it just remembers the last one you selected.
i could be wrong but im wondering if what im guessing happend is what happened based on what im seeing on screen with the <thinking>. it just can't happen with Claude since it's not a thinking model and i've seen this output before with GLM.
either way, i'll take this into consideration becuase we do want shakespeare to be the best it can be for non-devs. it's why we built it.