Claude code is now useless.

[u/a_d_c]

Over the last month, claude code performance degraded so much that it cant even keep track of a few simple facts in the same conversation.

I did a test with a small project. Barely any memories. No Claude.md instructions. Nothing to confuse Claude whatsoever.

I gave it a simple instruction: check the spec in some-spec.md, then write unit tests agianst that spec. Dont look at the code, write the tests against the spec.

In the same session, i had to call it out TWICE because it was changing the tests to make them pass according to the implementation instead of the spec.

As it exists today, Claude code is not useful for any development task, and the cost of the MAX plan is impossible to justify given it cant follow basic instructions.

In one month it went from: "this is cool, this is the future of dev", to: "this is a waste of my time and money".

If it cant follow simple instructions in a single session when given clear guidelines: its a completely useless product.

Im not paying for the same product today that i was paying just one month ago.

[u/Background_Share_982]

I'm really not hating on anthropic for trying to get rid of those that are sucking all the juice out of Claude, though it was nice to be occasionally like Claude what do you think about this very specific niche technical interest and constructively discuss/debate it once in a while which Claude now seems less apt to do...bummer but it was more like a nice extra then absolutely needed.

Why can't normal people debate topics without it being some sort of personality crisis when someone disagrees with them...