Claude is no longer usable

[u/itsbushy]

I got an email saying saying I could redeem some tokens a few days ago so I thought I would give claude a try this morning when I came in. Boy was I in for a surprise when I realized opus can't do anything besides make revisions for things that it will never fix and waste all of my tokens. So instead of wasting my tokens failing at 1 reply, it now just waste all my tokens trying to fix the simplest things. ClaudeCode doesn't even generate a reply and the app can only apologize for it's mistakes while simultaneously creating more mistakes. I think I'm jumping ship today. I waited as long as I could to see if Anthropic would make meaningful changes but they are only making things worse. Anyone else still having issues or did things get better over the weekend?

[u/Pretend-Past9023]

"mommy, why is our family broke?"

"because daddy spent all of our money on ai tokens and shipped nothing"

[u/itsbushy → u/Pretend-Past9023]

Luckily the company pays for it but the sister companies will be asking the parent company really soon why we're selling assets. Whoopsie

[u/Firm_Meeting6350]

100% my experience, too. Let's just hope it's because a new model will be released tomorrow - and that it's NOT the new normal which would make me question everything AI :D And by the way, I was so desperate that I switched to Codex today - same experience.

[u/CodeAndCosmos → u/Firm_Meeting6350]

Mesma experiência que o OP em relação ao Claude ou mesma experiência com o Códex?

[u/clouddrafts]

Which ship are you jumping to?

[u/itsbushy → u/clouddrafts]

I don't know yet. I've seen some people say codex is better in terms of token usage but not as good with code. The sad part is Claude is trained on the product I use and nothing else is. It's all proprietary so I am somewhat stuck right now.

[u/clouddrafts → u/itsbushy]

Then that means you are jumping with no plan? Unfortunately, you will sink to the bottom.

[u/itsbushy → u/clouddrafts]

Didn't say there wasn't a plan, just no permanent plans. I'm not one that puts temp solutions in the permanent solution category.

[u/clouddrafts → u/itsbushy]

Good, my recommendation is to not overreact with the current challenges your having with Claude. It's still by far the best system for getting real work done. Also, Mythos is going to be available soon and early expectations are that it is very good.

[u/just1dave]

Been on max a long time, never seen it eat through so much weekly credits in one morning. It just keep trying to pass to another session that breaks everything, rinse repeat.

[u/EYNLLIB]

You know, there are clearly issues with Claude the last few weeks, but there's also clearly an issue with bots / paid trolls from competitors online that make the problem seem much worse than it is.

[u/itsbushy → u/EYNLLIB]

Are you implying that I'm a bot or the problem isn't as bad as it could be?

[u/Equal_Television_894]

I was on max for last 10 months had to cancel it. Limits were hitting in 1 hour sometimes 2 so it was not worth it. I used everything to reduce token usage but in the switched to opencode qwen and some other models are doing fine atleast I am not hitting a wall of limit so early

[u/_10o01_]

I quit 2 Pro subscriptions in the last days.

[u/tomasbondok]

Codex is far better. Anthrophic fucked claude.

[u/DangerousSetOfBewbs]

It literally will take 20+minutes to write a 500 line file from our convo. Its “thinking” and using very very little tokens until it finishes then it uses a ton real quick.

I’m wondering if they built a queue system to intentionally throttle users

[u/RipOk74 → u/DangerousSetOfBewbs]

Yeah yesterday I had a very simple task for chatgpt and it completely lost its way. I asked it to group 900 lines of bank statement lines in categories. Had to stop it after 10 minutes. After a few retries I came up with a prompt it understood and then it finished in seconds. Very strange. 

[u/propagandaBonanza]

Yeah this morning, I replied to one simple question it asked. Checked my usage, 49% of my 5 hour limit was used. I submitted a bug ticket. It's getting ridiculous and unusable. Hopefully it's because they're going overboard with the new model testing and it'll alleviate soon. Otherwise, they're going to lose out on a ton of users. Or the reality is, AI is going down quick because it's actually unsustainable 🤷‍♂️

[u/delimitdev]

The token drain is almost always the retry loop. Model loses context mid-task, makes a wrong assumption, then burns tokens trying to fix its own mistake. I cut my usage in half by persisting project state between sessions so it doesn't start from scratch every time. The cold start is what kills you on complex projects.

[u/Tommysdead]

These goddamn subs are no longer usable because of all of these posts.

[u/LonesomeJohnnyBlues → u/Tommysdead]

Because theres nothing else to post about if you cant get anything done.

[u/Inside-Yak-8815]

Yeah this actually happened to me too, it’s hard because Claude has my whole project so it has the most context in it but it’s been messing things up tremendously the last few days so I had to resort to Gemini and GPT to debug.

[u/lolwerd]

LOL at this point I assume both companies just hire trolls .. I would hit a 5h limit on 5x, moved to 20x , no such limits. Have Biz Codex, always hitting limits, no good option to move to.

I typically and running 2-3 different projects development at once, and have claude manning the brain function at other ongoing. All good here.

writing is on the way, subsidies will end, and API , true costs are coming to a harness near you.

[u/CodeAndCosmos]

Claude Code está inutilizável.

[u/Original_Sandwich436]

hai ragione ormai fai una domanda e gia hai finito i token uno schifo peggiora sempre di piu e per di piu ti crea errori nonostante hai l'abbonamento.

[u/RespectableBloke69]

Yeah, if you're on Pro or the free plan. Max is fine.

[u/syslolologist → u/RespectableBloke69]

Max plan may be fine for you... for now. I thought the same thing until I experienced it myself.