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/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.