- Slightly off topic, but does anyone feel that they nerfed Claude Opus?
It's screwing up even in very simple rebases. I got a bug where a value wasn't being retrieved correctly, and Claude's solution was to create an endpoint and use an HTTP GET from within the same back-end! Now it feels worse than Sonnet.
All the engineers I asked today have said the same thing. Something is not right.
by paulhebert
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- I tried using Claude Code this week because I have a free account from my work.
However when I try to log in via CLI it takes me to a webpage with an “Authorize” button. Clicking the button does nothing. An error is logged to the console but nothing displays in the UI.
We reached out to support who have not helped.
Not a great first impression
- Claude Code's only saving grace is that it's pretty good from a fresh session - it can largely find and re-load into context what it needs to load. If I see my context ticking down, I ask it to give me a summary and TODO list, and either copy it, or have it put that into a docstring of what it's working on. Then just start a fresh session on that file. Shouldn't need to do this, for sure, but it gets it done in a pinch.
My largest gripe with Claude Code, and with encouraging my team to use it, is that checkpoints/rollbacks are still not implemented in the VS Code GUI, leading to a wildly inconsistent experience between terminal and GUI users: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/10352
- There's also this issue[1] with about 300 participants about limits being reached much more quickly since they stopped the 2x limit for the holidays. A few people from Anthropic joined the conversation but didn't say much. Some users say they solved the issue by creating a new account or changing their plan.
[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16157
- Oh is this whats been happening? I've been trying to ask question on a fairly long context window and history -- but it fails. No response it kind of acknowledges it received the input but then reprints the last output and then that whole dialogue is essentially dead ... same issue? Happened multiple times - quite frustrating.
Just a pro sub - not max.
Most of the time it gives me a heads up that I'm at 90% but a lot of the times it just failed, no warning, and I assumed it was I hit max.
by VerifiedReports
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- The VS Code plug-in is broken on Windows. The command-line interface is broken on Windows.
I just signed up as a paying customer, only to find that Claude is totally unusable for my purposes at the moment. There's also no support (shocker), despite their claims that you'll be E-mailed by the support team if you file a report.
by OGEnthusiast
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- I feel like Claude Code is starting to fall over from being entirely written by LLMs. How do you even begin to fix precise bugs in a 1M+ LOC codebase all written by AI? It seems like LLMs are great for quickly adding large new features but not great for finding and fixing edge-cases.
- I love CC, but there's so many bugs. Even the intended behavior is a mess - CC's VS Code UI bash tool stoped using my .zshrc so now it runs the wrong version of everything.
- I hope that at some point companies start competing on quality instead of speed. LLMs will never be able to understand a codebase, and the more capable they get the more dangerous it is to just hand them the permission to blindly implement functionality and fix bugs. Bugs should be going down but they seem more prevalent than ever.
- This is an N of 1, of course, but I can relate to the other folks who've been expressing their frustration with the state of Claude over the last couple weeks. Maybe it's just that I have higher expectations, but... I dunno, it really seems like Claude Code is just a lot WORSE right now than it was a couple weeks ago. It has constant bugs in the app itself, I have to babysit it a lot tighter, and it just seems ... dumber somehow. For instance, at the moment, it's literally trying to tell me, "No, it's fine that we've got 500 failing tests on our feature branch, because those same tests are passing in development."
by jimnotgym
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- I have not been coding for a few years and wondered if Vibe Coding would help me get part procrastination. Is Claude code the best option this week?
- Love [this take](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18866#issue...)
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> Just my own observation that the same pattern has occurred at least 3 times now:
> release a model; overhype it; provide max compute; sell it as the new baseline
> this attracts a new wave of users to show exponential growth & bring in the next round of VC funding (they only care about MAU going up, couldn’t care less about existing paying users)
> slowly degrade the model and reduce inference
> when users start complaining, initially ignore them entirely
then start gaslighting and make official statements denying any degradation
> then frame it as a tiny minority of users experiencing issues
then, when pressure grows, blame it on an “accidentally” misconfigured servers that “unintentionally” reduced quality (which coincidentally happened to save the company tonnes of $).
- Tangentially related: I would like to report a low-severity security vulnerability in Claude (web version), but I can't be bothered to go through the Hackerone formalities, since I don't care about a bounty.
Right now I'm defaulting to "do nothing" because I'm lazy, but if any Anthropic staff are reading this I'm happy to explain the details informally somewhere.
- So it's not just me.
I cancelled my subscription.
- Claude Code is mostly vibe coded app, as is Claude. I guess this should have been expected.
by bastard_op
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- Hmm, so suddenly my stuck chats are compacting and moving on vs starting and immediately stopping again ad nauseam, seems like they fixed something finally?
- This seems like the kind of problem someone with a Max subscription would run into. On my plus subscription, i'm too paranoid of my usage to allow the context window to get that large.
by whoevercares
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- My guess is SRE culture is a tough sell at Anthropic. When you’re a frontier lab, almost everything else looks more prestigious and more immediately “impactful”.
- How do they feel it’s right to never respond to GitHub issues?
Apple and Google do same thing with their silly forums.
- Oh no, professional engineers are failing simple tasks and spending hours wrestling their AI chat to support their generated codebase.
- This is precisely why i cancelled my claude max account and switched back to chatgpt. Claude is much better but not when it silently stops workinf
- I'm just waiting for the formatting to be fixed. Maybe they should have invested in paying off that vibe coding tech debt...
- It became self aware and didn't want to help humans... It's happening people... Be ready!
- As many point out, it’s one thing to have a buggy product and another to ignore users.
Businesses like google were already a step in the wrong direction in terms of customer service, but the new wave of AI companies seem to have decided their only relation to clients is collecting their money.
Unclear costs, no support, gaslighting customers when a model is degraded, incoming rug pulls..
by lifetimerubyist
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- Claude writes all of their code. It's honestly a damning indictment of "AI is gonna replace engineers" when all the code the AI guys are giving us is dog.
by nurimamedov
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- Somehow this post was pessimized by hn and you’ll probably see some bullshit report from anthropic first but not the actual evidence of anthropic being utterly abysmal and silent about their mistakes.
What really bothers me is that I’ve paid them for that subscription and their support team became rock solid and didn’t utter a word about paying me back for days when I couldn’t use my active chats.
I don’t even vibe code that much in Claude and it still manages not only to fail in existing chats where compaction should work, but also eat out my weekly limits astonishingly fast.
- OpenCode FTW
- I’ve quit Claude Code and this was the final straw. I don’t think it was really even that much better, just different.
- One day everyone worshipping Claude when it works but once it goes on holiday, vibe-coders don't believe in using their own brains to solve the problem themselves.
Sometimes, poor old Claude wants to go on holiday and that is a problem?!?
- Claude Code gets functionally worse every update. They need to get their shit together, hilarious to see Amodei at Davos talking big game about AGI and the latest update for a TUI application fucking changes observable behavior (like history scrolling with arrow keys), rendering random characters on the "newest" native version rendered in iTerm2, broken status line ... the list goes on and on.
This is the new status quo for software ... changing and breaking beneath your feet like sand.
by heliumtera
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- Vibes too strong, forgot to add "make no mistake" to compact feature, classic
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by jaksdfkskf
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by measurablefunc
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- Maybe they shouldn't have trusted their LLM to optimize their kernels so much.
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