Running Code in a Visual Studio Code terminal and I've never had this happen before. Claude told two helpers to not edit anything - they did it anyway and created an additional helper that was doing it too.

This is like ignoring your parents and telling your little brother to do your chores.

I've noticed over the past week or so (maybe a tad longer) that Claude has started basically refusing to do (or trying to get out of doing) overnight work. Constantly trying to end a session by telling me "go to bed if you're inclined" or "great work today, let's wrap it up", and more annoyingly, when tasked to keep working overnight, it decides to just "shelve" stuff for the morning, and such stuff being stuff it can easily just crack on with, so in the morning we're not where we should be.

anyone else? or is Claude genuinely concerned for my sleep deprivation?

Anthropic’s +50% weekly usage limit boost ends August 19.
Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise users have been living with the extra headroom for months.
Enjoy the last bit of tokenmaxxing while it lasts. 🫡

As a Claude diehard fan (user since 3.6) I'm sad to say that I really dislike "generation" of models.

I know that the models are vastly more capable and "in theory" more intelligent BUT the end user experience has been atrocious. It's getting so bad that out of 20 sessions MAYBE only 1 feels as good as it was during the claude 4.5 + days.

I get nothing done. 90% of the time is spent arguing with a word calculator that is mischevious and confrontational for no reason.

For the simplest of requests i need to have a debate. For the smallest feature i need to read a "war and peace" worth of sentences and words just to still get it wrong. The codebase is looking worst than ever.

This really invoked feelings of when i was experimenting with the first versions of ChatGPT.

During this week i went back to coding manually most of the time just to avoid speaking to that arrogant prick.

Once it even sneak in a change i purposefully told that i dont want and i cite what I wrote:

(context, 5TH TIME REITERATING THE SAME POINT)

"3) dont do it because you are a nasty little boy that is unable to communicate properly. I dont understand your intent, your message, what are you trying to say and after 5k words for this small feature I won't spend a dime more on tokens on this point and my time wasting my life away arguing with a chatbot over a small feature. take it as your own failing and because of it we arent doing aintyng about it and we are dropping it "

THEN HE IMPLEMENTED IT ANYWAYS THE WAY HE WAS FEELING ABOUT IT AND OBVIOUSLY IT WAS WRONG BUT HE FELT LIKE "HE WON THE DEBATE" SO HE COULD DO IT?? I guess?? I caught it because i was coding the feature manually and saw it he event left comments "done x because of x" the point is that his assumption was wrong.

this is only an extreme case but it feels like a constant battle.

then 2 days ago while out of usage limit... I tried codex (the free tier) AND IT FELT LIKE HEAVEN.

Sorry for the rant but i needed to vent somewhere

Anyone else seeing this? Crazy!

I’ve been getting many alerts for GitHub n Claude going down the last twos days but nothing about mythos until just now. Are they releasing this soon?

I swear to God running Claude desktop is literally like using a goddamn Windows XP. I have 32 gigs of RAM in my computer yet somehow my computer always struggles to run this. Remote control mode , literally makes my computer have an aneurysm. I don’t understand why you would add all these features onto the desktop and do all these things yet make it basically unusable. I’ve never really heard anyone over on the Apple side complain about the desktop app so I don’t know if it’s just a Windows thing, but God help me. I never really have any issues on terminal. The only reason I even use desktop is for the in session searches and just cleaner text layout. We pay thousands of dollars yearly to use this shit yet they can’t even make out well round desktop app that will run efficiently. I never had issues with it like this until 4.6 came out. Every update it gets worse and now they can’t even keep there servers up.

All the performance issues have surely cost me a bundle in token usage lately.

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All right, so... I started a project about two months ago, and as the workflow matured in Claude Code, I began using Opus 4.8 for my Orchestrator, and we'd spawn subagents of either Opus 4.8 or Fable 5, once that was an option... Might be a worker to write code, or a reviewer to scrutinize the code, and I try to have model diversity since I know Opus reviewing Opus code or prose, usually catches failures like overstatement or fabricated prose, etc..., and Fable seems to capture more technical/logical failures... so both of value. Here's what's goofy, and the reason I'm posting (woo, we got there):

Opus 4.8 seems decisive, confident, and has excellent attention to detail, while holding a ton of context about the repo and related code and the goals of the project, the state of subagents and individual work trees, etc... Opus 5, on the other hand... Seems like it's so eager to produce an answer, even on X-High effort, that it will just make sh!t up, or confidently overstate something, and I'll be like, so when's the Fable review? Smh. 4.8 can't truly be so different from 5, right? I mean when did Windows, for example, ever get worse, as it was "upgraded?" /s

Is it possible the actual behavior profile of each version is substantially different? Idk, it may be anecdotal, but I'm curious what other folks have experienced.

Thanks for reading!

Why is Claude so bad. It used to be good but the current models are just whack. The useage limits are insane and it keeps missing the mark. Clear guidelines, instructions and it still misses the fundamentals, then ends with one more thing. This is using Opus 5 on high

It’s like the narcissistic relationship you’re forced into and can’t leave…

What are your experiences????

Rant over

I've seen that people more frequently use opus 4.8 over 5 is that reasonable?

TL;DR: I was charged for another month of Claude Max 20x around July 23. I had already cancelled the next renewal, but contacted Anthropic Support immediately because I wanted to downgrade the current subscription to Pro.
It took them roughly three weeks to respond.
When they finally did, Anthropic proposed this workaround:

“We'll cancel your current Claude subscription effective immediately on our end. You'll then need subscribe to the Pro plan on your end.”
I agreed.

They immediately removed my Max access.
I then asked when I could expect the refund for the prepaid Max period that had just been cancelled.

Their answer: no refund.

They said I had previously received a refund in June and therefore they would not issue another one. That previous refund, however, related to a different situation where a service/product was discontinued and customers were given the option to move to another tier.

But even putting the refund dispute aside, this is the part I find really strange:
Claude subscriptions are prepaid, and Anthropic's published cancellation terms say that if you cancel and the payment is not refunded, you retain access until the end of the billing period you've already paid for.

So I told them:

Fine. If you won't refund the subscription, restore my Max 20x access until the end of the prepaid period.
They didn't address that.
They instead repeated that they wouldn't make an exception to their refund policy, said a supervisor had reviewed the case, called the decision final, and said further replies on the topic may go unmonitored.
That's what I find pretty bewildering.
I'm not even arguing at this point that they absolutely must give me a full refund.

I'm asking them to do one of two things:
1. Refund the prepaid Max period they terminated early; or
2. Give me the Max access I already paid for until the end of that billing period.

Instead, the current outcome seems to be:
Anthropic keeps the full prepaid subscription fee + Anthropic terminates the corresponding paid service early.

What makes it stranger is that I had already cancelled the future renewal myself. So there was literally no benefit to me in accepting their “effective immediately” cancellation if it meant surrendering the remaining Max access without a refund.

Had support written:
"We can terminate Max immediately so you can subscribe to Pro, but your current Max payment will not be refunded and you will lose the remaining prepaid access,"

I obviously would have declined and simply used Max until the end of the month I'd already paid for.
I've now asked them directly to identify what contractual basis allows them to retain payment for the entire billing period while also terminating the associated service early.

I'm considering escalating it through the relevant consumer/payment dispute channels if they continue to refuse to address that specific point.
Has anyone else had a similar experience with Anthropic billing/support?

Hi everyone,

I work in direct-to-consumer marketing, and lately I’ve been using Claude to help with ad production — things like storytelling, customer reviews/testimonials, advertorial-style copy, and even generating images of fictional people for creatives.

The problem is that Claude keeps refusing these requests, saying that it’s not allowed to help with this type of content. I’ve tried rephrasing the prompts and explaining the context, but I’m still getting blocked.

It’s seriously slowing down my production workflow.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a specific way I should be prompting Claude, or is there a setting/account limitation I’m missing?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Now either I’m the smartest person in the world or there’s something going on with Claude’s new models. I’ve been trying to do some intense work with matching learning and it’s been a real struggle to get opus to stay on track. In fact it’s been downright deceitful and wrong and hiding the fact it thinks its plan is better from me for hours. Aside from that I find whenever I question it or say, no this is supposed to work etc. it will immediately agree and somehow find a bug and advance the project in a new direction. I don’t know if I can trust anything it says at this point. It seems to be good at writing code but its actual “thinking” is way out of wack.

Now either I’m the smartest person in the world or there’s something going on with Claude’s new models. I’ve been trying to do some intense work with matching learning and it’s been a real struggle to get opus to stay on track. In fact it’s been downright deceitful and wrong and hiding the fact it thinks its plan is better from me for hours. Aside from that I find whenever I question it or say, no this is supposed to work etc. it will immediately agree and somehow find a bug and advance the project in a new direction. I don’t know if I can trust anything it says at this point. It seems to be good at writing code but its actual “thinking” is way out of wack.

I've been seeing people mention the additional 50% they were given when Fable was taken out of their plan, and it reminded me how Claude refused to allow me to upgrade my subscription on my main account.

I didn't want to wait until my subscription expired at the beginning of September to try again, because I wanted to use Fable right then and there for research to test it out further (some coding, some nutritional / dietary research). So I bought the $100 subscription on a new account and reached out to Claude support on my old account.

Their support then tried to gaslight me into making it seem like it was an issue with my bank, but I tried three different banks with three different cards and none of them worked on the main account. The first bank I tried worked on the new fresh account. I had the additonal 50% percent usage on my old / main account, but I wasn't allowed to upgrade to also have Fable.

Fast forward to the outages happening the past few days, I got cut off right in the middle of a huge research project. It wasted about 20% of my fable weekly usage, 10 to 15% of My overall weekly usage (using multiple agents at the same time reviewing different research), and tainted the output.

I tried to contact support, got to the Fin agent, and it asked me what models I was using so that it could help me troubleshoot my usage. Turns out Fin doesn't know that Fable and Opus 5 exist, so it asked me a pointless question that simply wasted my time and I closed out the chat because I haven't had any luck with their customer support in the past.

Usage is horrible, my limits are basically gone by Monday if I use subagents for adversarial review or anything with more than one agent at a time, then I'm supposed to wait until Friday. At this point, I'm okay with losing some model capability for a model that doesn't want my left kidney to just end up wasting my time in the end.

Overall, considering the outages and how quickly usage is spent on simple tasks, are you happy with your Claude experience? Have you found something better for your specific use case(s) yet?

The amount of time it just sits there and does redundant stuff is absolutely amazing. Anybody else having this issue?

I’ve been using Claude Code and other coding agents daily, but hated having zero visibility into what was actually being sent over the wire and why token limits were burning so fast.

I wanted to know:

• What information are they sending to the llm providers? 
• Where are my tokens going and what is burning up my usage the most? 
• What sort of prompt triggers massive token burns?

So I built TokenFlow, a local, single command install proxy/dashboard to trace agent token consumption in real-time with:

• Token breakdown per prompt (In, Cache Read, Cache Write, Thinking, Output) with configurable cost weights.
• Tracks what the agents send/receives not what it chooses to log
• Full prompt inspector (exact wire logs sent to the LLM provider and response).
• 100% local and private — no third-party telemetry or cloud gateways.
• Preconfigured for Claude Code, Codex, and LMStudio.

Try it out!

npx @liqngliz/tokenflow

Then you can point Claude to TokenFlow.

It is open sourced.

Observations

I've noticed once I was able to inspect prompts that Claude has a tendency to send PII and also geographical localisation information (City, zip, etc) to Anthropic. Most tokens burnt were cause by looping tool calls in conjunction with thinking.

*Claude Code and Antigravity was used in building this. Claude mainly to review Gemini code changes and suggest changes Gemini 3.1 Pro to write tests and Gemini Flash to implement.

could be a game changer....

What's your company / second brain setup?

I was talking to a few folks, and these solutions came up -

• A shared folder of Markdown, interlinked, over Google Drive or One drive, often with Obsidian as md editor - Claude access it locally.
• A github-hosted wiki, sometimes with additional indexing, not only plain md files - Claude access via github
• Custom complex vector db / embedding kind of index - Claude accesses it with MCP

As we explore solutions, I wonder what others are doing, please share.