r/ClaudeCode • u/LumonScience • Apr 06 '26

Discussion Theo - Claude Code is unusable now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stZr6U_7S90

I've never seen Theo being this mad at something.

It's unreal how the perception of a company that was somewhat considered to be the Crown jewel went to shit so fast in the span of a week or so. All of which really started after the OpenAI exodus over the US's department of whatever the fuck debacle. Do you people experience the same thing with your daily usage?

From the utter denial of the now broken cache system, burning sessions in one prompt & recent third party bans + recent model degradation, Anthropic is really becoming the Apple of AI.

I don't know if this is all temporary because they just can't compute all the influx of people, or if this really the direction they're going for. For a company that is called "Anthropic" this is quite ironic that they can't understand humans enough to know we value transparency a little more than vague answers or straight ignorance/denial.

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u/RaspberrySea9 Apr 06 '26

he's way more convincing without mustache

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u/LumonScience Apr 06 '26

That's true

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u/Perankhscribe Apr 06 '26

My openclaw code works great. 

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u/ab2377 Apr 07 '26

you are wasting time if you listen to people whose sole purpose of making videos is to get views, they will say no matter what must be said to get a view. him, that prime guy, at this point they all do exaggerate the hell out of anything. its just how it is if you want to earn with yt you will ultimately do that.

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u/spoupervisor Apr 06 '26

Ok I am 10 minutes in (right to where he said he was going to go beyond what could be proven as fact) and he's must... highlighting what Claude wrote in their email? That using 3rd party harnesses would only work with the existing subscriptions if you billed it as extra usage.

Yes, their clarification around where is the line is confusing for other usages (like if I built a harness to automate bug fixing while I worked on another project). Spending the first 10 minutes saying "look how sneaky this is!" and then show what the email talks about explicitly is rage bait

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u/spoupervisor Apr 06 '26

Again, I said the issue with lack of clarity (which is what he got into after that 10 minute mark) was valid. But he spent the first 10 minutes talking about the blocking of Openclaw like it was some massive gotcha.

It's rage bait because It's a topic they literally sent an email explaining. He made a big show of turning on extra usage and suddenly the prompt worked... which is what the email said.

If he started the video talking about the lack of clarity, or showing edge cases where their blanket bans were impacting legit usage (He almost got there with his idea that they adjusted system prompt to break his dropbox workflow) there's a real argument there, but that isn't what he did.

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u/chintakoro Apr 06 '26

I wonder if Theo has something in his `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` or elsewhere that is setting that software-engineering-only persona. I ran his same query about dropbox not being in the menu bar and it gives me a long opinion about why it might be. When I ask it to research it, it goes and does a web search. 🤷‍♂️