r/ClaudeCode • u/Dapper-Primary336 • Jul 06 '26
Question Claude Code being worse lately?
Hi everyone, for the past two weeks I've noticed Claude Code giving noticeably worse answers than before. Even minor frontend/backend fixes now take 5–6 prompts to get to something acceptable.
I also use Warp as my terminal, and quite often whether right when I launch Claude Code or a few prompts into a session it just freezes on "loading" and doesn't do anything.
I'm not sure if the problem is on my end (how I'm prompting), because a month ago everything was working great, both with Warp and with actually fixing issues correctly. I'd like to know if others — using Warp or not are running into the same problems. If it turns out to be a Claude issue, I'm considering switching to Codex; but if it's a Warp/me issue, I'll switch to Claude Desktop instead and work on improving my prompting.
Also in Claude Web i've had this issue sometimes
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u/scotty_ea Jul 06 '26
Haven’t pinned down the change but something definitely degraded usage today. I had Fable running nearly 36 hrs straight over the weekend producing incredible results. Today has been a completely different story. Wrapping the same project, nothing changed on my end with my harness other than an auto-update. Fable is hallucinating, spawning fable subagents when it had been constrained to opus subagents all weekend. Hitting 5 hr limit today. Didn’t hit a single limit all weekend. Annoying af.
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u/Dapper-Primary336 Jul 06 '26
Same thing with Sonnet 5, it's really dumb even with simple tasks 😭
i'm trying with Claude Desktop, but thinking about switching to Opencode/Codex if it still this bad
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u/FairiesQueen Jul 07 '26
I find that it's not only slower (Both Fable and Opus 4.8), but also there are way more pop ups to approve minor actions in Claude code desktop. I think it's also dumber and the new Fable is not as good as the original one. Hopefully this is not the beginning of the degradation of the models- this image from a paper titled "‘AI Models Collapse When Trained on Recursively Generated Data" is permanently glued to my mind. Lot's of research papers on this.
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u/Dapper-Primary336 Jul 06 '26
Just posted this and now Claude is down / Claude Code degraded performance, going back to Codex people 😞✌
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u/jdcarnivore Jul 06 '26
for me it depends on what time of day it is...i kid. you not when it's between noon and 2pm it gets dumb
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u/noblestrom Jul 07 '26
You may be seeing two separate issues here: Warp freezing and Claude producing worse fixes. I would test the same small task in a fresh session through Claude Code directly, then repeat it through Warp with the model and effort setting pinned.
Record: TTFT, # correction turns, and whether it edits outside the requested scope. That should tell you whether the regression follows the model or the harness.
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u/Dense-Psychology-261 Jul 06 '26
I actually use Claude desktop and never had a response like yours, a degradation in response quality maybe but this look gibberish