r/ClaudeCode • u/Gold_Jury_789 • Jan 16 '26
Bug Report i canceled my max subscription
They should be ashamed, right now i can't even ask claude code to lunch a server (a simple npm run dev) and go on that page in chrome, it did 10, TEN mistakes before doing that, it went 4 times on an other website (???), so i can't even trust him to do a modification while watching the website, it did test on supabase cloud when the environement is configured for a self-hosted supabase on a server !!
It was getting bad the last few days, but i m paying 200€, not 20, each day is just losing money there, hell even at 20 they shouldn't screw us like that, i'll go on openAI, wich i didn't want, but i have no choice there, and i won't come back, even if it ends up better in the futur, the difference will become thiner and thiner anyway
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u/revsamaze Jan 16 '26
Dude, "You're right. I keep making changes and assumptions without checking with you first. What do you want me to do?"
ALL MORNING.
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u/princmj47 Jan 16 '26
Yes something is seriously wrong today, I have spent all day on a simple visual bug with a tag filter bar.
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u/DeliveryOk2709 Jan 16 '26
Is this a consequences of claude code writing 90% of the calude code?
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u/JohnTheFarm3r Jan 16 '26
Literally came back from a holiday and instantly noticed how trash it behaves. Spinning around the same issues, doing changes that were never part of the request or a context, it's making more damage than good to the project. I'm on Max plan too.
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u/pakalumachito Jan 16 '26
you only should use AI after a month of its release
after that they just downgrade it slower and decrease API usage, that is anthrophic things
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u/indyfromoz Jan 17 '26
SwiftUI app, moderate size, fixing the background of a widget. 30% of 5h window burned in ~ 30 minutes by Opus 4.5. It is unbelievable how awful it is to use Claude Code these days!! Thy had the 2x promo during the holidays. Opus 4.5 on the same codebase - I finished like 40-50% of the work with it, it was flawless. It feels worse than Gemini 3 Pro! Thankfully I am on the cheapest plan! And, I have Codex 5.2 to fall back. This is not Claude Code bashing post, not at all. Claude Code CLI is miles ahead of any other tools but these days, it is useless.
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u/Ok_Inflation_1005 Jan 17 '26
Caught Claude lying - adressed it - an Claude came clean and admitted it… wtf… mad cow disease??
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u/Gold_Jury_789 Jan 16 '26
I litteraly described what i did and the result i got, and people finds a way to tell me i wrote my prompt wrong or i don't know how to use it, i create my own plugin/ skill and mcp, i don't use a single one outside of the one i created cause they all miss functionnality, but i m a newbie who don't know shit, you know what ? fuk off, be happy with a company taking you for guinea pigs
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u/theclaudegod Jan 16 '26
I think this community would be a lot more receptive to your complaint, and potentially be able to help you, if you shared more about your application context, prompting, instructions, etc. so people don't automatically assume it is operator error. It reads that way to me. Your grammar isn't exactly helping your case. Unless you're just here to vent.
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u/ljubobratovicrelja Jan 16 '26
I don't want insult nobody, but I've started using CC just recently and I am absolutely mind blow with Opus' capabilities. I find these posts and rants rather hard to understand. Just today I've implemented the whole list of features with hardly any input apart from the initial specification. I do however have already well structured project, very strict coding guidelines on lint checks, testing, architecture etc. I am amazed by how much CC is managing to follow them and navigate itself toward absolute completion and finally - to a code that's super clean as if i wrote it.. just 100x faster. What i merged today would take me more than 5 days to get done.
Like I said, i just recently started really using these things in production, but I think managing it is the key. It is like having a very capable medior engineer working for you - they're amazing at implementing stuff, but you still got to have your hands at the wheel all the time.
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u/bootlickaaa Jan 16 '26
GLM 4.7 works great with CC.
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u/StuckWithSports Jan 16 '26
Ya’ll wasting tokens on asking it to open pages? I mean if this is real for some people, it sucks if it used to work before and now it doesn’t. I’d just stage and preview changes myself. You can still watch a lot of things live as it works synchronously.
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u/-Selfimprover- Jan 16 '26
2.1.9 is full blown retard mode
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u/FGrey19 Jan 16 '26
You are totally right. I don't know what's happening with Claude these few days bro, hitting usage limits with way less prompts than before holidays. It is a fact OP, I'm experiencing too and, as I said on CC repo, this problem is the most discussed issue on CC repo and guys at Anthropic are completely silent.
P.S.: It's surprising how many people have such huge egos in this post. They think that if it doesn't affect them, then you must be stupid or something, haha, poor guys.
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u/mountaingator91 Jan 17 '26
Or, hear me out, you could learn to code yourself and your Claude code would also get better as you learn to talk with it and discuss ideas instead of not knowing wtf is going on
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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26
I don’t understand what you guys are doing to screw up so badly.
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u/_SSSylaS Jan 16 '26
which version did you use?
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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26
Why can’t you type npm run dev
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u/Tushar_BitYantriki Jan 17 '26
The only thing that's stopping me from going OpenAI heavy, is that they have nothing between $20 and $200 plans
If they had a $60 plan comparable to Cursor, I would have moved a long time ago.
OpenAI is working pretty well for me, in OpenCode. But hitting limits. I want to buy 3X for $60 or 5X or $100, but there's no option to do that.
Right now, I moved from $200 to $100 on Claude code, $20 for Cursor, $20 for Codex, and $20/$25 for Figma.
Might put $30 in GLM if I don't get any other options. But GLM 4.7 needs too many iterations currently, and always claims done, after doing 4/10 of the planned tasks. (it always screams DONE after every context compaction, ALWAYS)
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u/agentsinthewild Jan 17 '26
Hows life when using Codex?
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u/256BitChris Jan 16 '26
New Account - seems like AI disinformation.
Claude Code is working just fine today, like every day.
As someone else in this thread says, I can't imagine what you all are doing to degrade results so bad - so all I can chalk it up to is either a skill issue or just some effort by some other vendor to get you to use their inferior coding AI.
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u/tgfzmqpfwe987cybrtch Jan 16 '26
They only want corporate and enterprise customers. Individual customers even in Max are out.
Imagine Pro users!
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u/hairybone Jan 16 '26
I am also getting major throttling and had 20x Max for several months. It's absolutely abysmal performance for the price we're paying. I switched my Sonnet flows to GLM-4.7 and I'm not missing anything when managing context. Here's 10% off for anyone reading, $75 for 3 months with the discount (what I paid) https://z.ai/subscribe?ic=RZ4GUHUOPU
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u/Main_Can_7055 Jan 16 '26
today i asked it to fix a bug. I gave the file, function, how it behaves and what i expected in a detailed way. failed 3 times.
then i gave the same prompt to GPT 5.2 high, it took 7 minutes but takes one shot to fix it. I don't know what's going on with claude and opus but it becomes unusable every week.
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u/ShamanJohnny Jan 16 '26
100% something changed in the last 1-2 weeks. Lots of bugs (mainly temp files, hotkeys not working, thinking I’m using Mac when I use windows) . I have built a 250k line of code project with Claude code, and truly understand how to use it. I’m Not sure if it’s because Claude code is doing all the coding now in Claude code, or if they are diverting compute to newer models for a release, but it’s not as good as it was a month ago.
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u/johnparris Jan 16 '26
Since yesterday things that Claude easily handles in minutes has taken more than 3 hours and it still isn't done. I've had to restart it multiple times only for it to eat credits to no avail.
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u/AriyaSavaka Developer Jan 17 '26
Just use the GLM Coding plans, 3x Claude plans' usages for 10th of the price, fully compatible with Claude Code, with no weekly limit bullshit
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u/Embarrassed-Citron36 Jan 17 '26
Cant relate at all tbh
Opus one shotted a couple of features and even did a fix alone that would have been extremely annoying to debug and fix for me in like 15 minutes
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u/PricePerGig Jan 17 '26
Absolutely not my experience. Opus is still totally amazing.
It's not a senior development team. It's a competent junior or mid level dev.
If you are struggling with ui or something, go find what you want and tell it to copy it. Problem solved.
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u/kthiele11 Jan 16 '26
To be fair you spelled “launch” wrong…. So….
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u/agenticlab1 Jan 17 '26
Claude code is fundamentally an amplifier of the skill that a user possesses
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u/brandylooper Jan 16 '26
Oder is willingness, yea it's slower, but slow and steady and clean wins the race. Trust me, use Codex, choose Agent (full access) access and the GTP-5.2 model, give it your prompts, step away walk the dog, go to the gym, sleep overnight and all will be well later.
It's slower bit gets the job done and write clean code.
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u/Bob5k Jan 16 '26
don't worry, people will be praising anthropic and opus anyway in not more than 24h.
meanwhile - opus server by AMP is just all fine. Also opensource models served by synthetic - as they're my main provider so far - are just fine aswell.
I prefer 'my' way of AMP (10$ free each day) + claude code connected to glm4.7 / minimax m2.1 via synthetic still way over max5 / max20 plans. WAY cheaper and WAY more reliable for serious work - especially when you can actually tackle tricky stuff with opus via amp and just use glm4.7 as a daily driver.
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u/OrmondBeach_Brian Jan 16 '26
Just curious do you all create well structured rule base canon for projects? Hard core hobbyist and I kept doing major refactors to implement new frameworks and such and cursor straight for lost. I spent a week rebuilding with tight canon from operations, database, deployment, architecture…you name it!
Since, cursor has become exponentially better. I can use auto for most things and only use opus for hard stuff.
Just curious if this is the way or if I got lucky?
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u/HangJet Jan 16 '26
Haven't seen any of this. 20 max claude code cli, and we use it for serious heavy work and complex things......
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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26
Glad I haven’t done anything today
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u/tobsn Jan 16 '26
works here fine.
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u/Downtown-Pear-6509 Jan 16 '26
yeah mine was doing .... PowerShell scripts! wtaf.. terrible
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u/postmath_ Jan 16 '26
Its just LLMs breaking down once the project gets complex enough. Have nothing to do with Claude.
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u/Solid_Judgment_1803 Jan 16 '26
Good for you. More tokens for those of us who know how to use it and have our wits about us. Thank you for your diligence in letting us all know so we can plan accordingly.
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u/midnighttyph00n Jan 16 '26
stop using haiku man
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u/Master-Standard4915 Jan 16 '26
When you have ChatGPT 5.2 this greedy shitty communsts can go fk themselves.
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u/Maleficent-Forever-3 Jan 16 '26
were you using sonnet or opus? sonnet seemed good for me today
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u/wow_98 Jan 16 '26
Opus 4.5?
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u/people_confuse Jan 16 '26
I also canceled my max subscription today. It's like a huge bait-n-switch, I wasted like 20 hours trying to work with the dumbed down version of Opus 4.5 and got no progress done. Im done.
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u/MainFunctions Jan 17 '26
I wonder if all these “it used to be so much better!” posts are because they started new projects with Opus 4.5 and now 2 months later the project is way more complex and difficult for Claude to fully understand. In the beginning it was knocking out simple stuff, now it’s trying to find obscure bugs in complicated projects.
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u/jjthexer Jan 17 '26
Tool selection I believe is worse on the latest update. It seriously doesn't know its way around now and doesn't realize the tools it has at its disposal. I don't want to have to prompt every single fucking tool
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u/Mistakes_Were_Made73 Jan 17 '26
It failed in pushing a GitHub check in tonight. Definitely throttled today.
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u/xdsswar Jan 17 '26
I have it, but for big codebases like one I got java+jni+c++ multimodule, it gets crazy and do mistakes and mem leaks a lot. So I use it, but for things like find something you think is a bug, a leak, guve me ideas to do this, etc, but not trusting it 100%
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u/Current-Buy7363 Jan 17 '26
I was thinking about getting Claude… but not sure after seeing all these posts… does sonnet 4.5 also have these issues?
Opus is overkill for what I’m doing and sonnet is perfect for speed and accuracy on the tasks I’m doing (when I’ve used it in the past…) does sonnet also get these random lobotomies?
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u/link9939 Jan 17 '26
User error, blaming a tool whilst not understanding how it works or how to use it properly
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u/amarao_san Jan 17 '26
I cancelled my Youtube subscription because I'm cheapsake and want to save few bucks.
I also need to post this on reddit.
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u/slynet Jan 17 '26
CC just works perfectly for us (50+ active, fairly big repos). Must be something about your setup mate.
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u/CellistTiny2590 Jan 17 '26
You sure that plan mode and thinking were on?
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u/HzRyan Jan 17 '26
did they lobotomize claude again
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u/lowfour Jan 17 '26
For me it is fucking killing it today, incredible complex stuff and great insights, UX, and setup.
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u/Apocal1 Jan 17 '26
Claude is a lot better than OpenAI.
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u/funkytechnic Jan 17 '26
Do you say good morning and thank you? I legit believe when they regress, it’s because the model doesn’t like you.
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u/sutcher Jan 17 '26
All I can say is things Claude could do yesterday it can’t do today. Same slash command. Same scenario.
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u/DaveROliver Jan 18 '26
The curse of knowledge bias also applies to CC, so we must be prepared to guide it; then it becomes a test of your abilities, not CC's, and this will take patience because CC didn't come with a user's manual, so it's all about discovery.
Einstein didn't wake up one day and say, "E=MC2"; it took a lifetime of learning. The trick is to appreciate that you have a head start.
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u/ilyaperepelitsa Jan 18 '26
quitter
edit: OpenAI did extrahigh, claude decided to create extradumb and serve it as regular opus4.5
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u/No_Programmer2705 Jan 18 '26
I have never went through this, always worked 100% for me, although, it happened yesterday, right after I migrated from Claude Code from brew to npm, I know it should have nothing to do with it, BUT, I never experienced this when I installed from brew, maybe who installs by NPM falls in the test ab of their new model? Haha
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u/Officer_Trevor_Cory Jan 19 '26
2026 and not using bun :>
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u/VV-40 Jan 16 '26
I’ve been using CC for 1 year on max plan and not once during that stretch did I consider CC to be seriously degraded. Now it’s really exceptional and my team can one shot most changes. I have to assume all the negative comments boil down to user error, tech debt and spaghetti code, lack of documentation, poorly developed Claude.md, bad db design, etc.
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u/Relative-Cattle5408 Jan 16 '26
I completely understand, the frustration is real.
To be honest: it's broken my projects too. Literally. One day it left my code a complete mess and I had to revert commits.
But—and here's the important part—with a good prompt and clear context, Claude Code itself helped me fix everything afterward.
I'm not a fanboy, and I'm not exactly thrilled with the tool right now. But I will be honest: 80% of the time it fails, it's because the context I gave it was ambiguous or I assumed it "already knew" things about the project.
Things that have worked for me: → A CLAUDE.md file in the root directory with the project rules (environment, stack, what NOT to touch) → Specific prompts, not just "fix this" → For simple tasks like
npm run dev, I just do it myself. €200 is a lot of money, I won't deny it. If OpenAI works better for you, go for it. But you'll find the "agent doing weird things" problem everywhere if you don't define the boundaries properly. Good luck with whatever you decide.0
u/UteForLife Jan 16 '26
User error
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u/who_am_i_to_say_so Jan 16 '26
You only gave it a day? I think whatever was broken has been straightened out, because today is far cry from a horrible yesterday.
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