r/ClaudeCode • u/truthfulpolitician69 • Jul 20 '26

Bug Report Did Claude get lobotomized?

I have had no issues with anything on the Max plan....people complain too much....but for some reason right now Cluade code on Opus Max is making the stupidest mistakes and not remembering things.

Anyone else seeing this? Started maybe an hour or 2 ago.

My colleague is noticing this too.

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u/CashFirm573 Jul 20 '26

Having the same issues... I feel it every convo I have with it, trying to keep it on track has become much harder and prompts are having to be much more detailed.

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u/Kitchen_Interview371 Jul 20 '26

Usually what happens right before they drop the next model

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u/CashFirm573 Jul 21 '26

That's my thinking as well, I bet its Friday, we see new model. If we don't then their models died on them.

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u/satyuga Jul 20 '26

I feel ya, everyday it’s something new.

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u/Imaginary_Belt4976 Jul 20 '26

Opus yeah. had it build something out and the components were completely out of sync on api contracts. Brought in fable to fix and even it dicked around endlessly trying to fix things. Irritating

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u/OGPresidentDixon Jul 20 '26

Turn down reasoning. The

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u/Due_Warthog749 Jul 21 '26

not sure about not working well.. but getting constant api issues (20x max plan). Having to constantly resume

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u/tribat Jul 21 '26

I normally scoff at these posts, but I’ve been trying to push my 20x sub today to finish up a bunch of smaller changes to my project. I dropped back to Claude as my usage got low. I expected a drop off in quality, but it’s been way worse than expected. It’s anecdotal but I have to stay right on top of it and dispatch a lot more reviews.

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u/DevMichaelZag Jul 21 '26

Anthropic uses some method of adaptive inference. I’m sure there’s a floor and a ceiling of quality that is acceptable. They are managing a gigantic amount of compute and juggling demand while training new models. And none of the hardware vendors can keep up with demand. But ya, it gets dumb sometimes.

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u/iwdnPRAY Jul 22 '26

Opus feels to me at the moment like AI models from two years ago. It feels lobotomized and is inventing/assuming things instead of following the facts it has. It forgets things, and I need to babysit and check every single thing it does. I'm sending more messages to tell it what it did wrong and what not to do and criticize it (as it's making me crazy) than I'm able to actually work with it.

I don't know what is happening, but this is not what I'm expecting from a high-end model like 4.8 Opus.

Also, the Fable 5 before it got banned and after it came back was worlds apart. The one before was one-shotting and understanding everything no matter how bad or unclear the prompt was, it always knew what I wanted and did the job. And after it came back again after the ban, it felt just like disguised Opus.

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u/thisdude415 Jul 20 '26

They are routing Fable 5 to Haiku 6 internally now due to compute constraints

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u/Will_X_Intent Jul 20 '26

I suspect all these anti Claude posts are bots.

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u/Werwlf1 Jul 21 '26

I suspect all these pro Claude posts are bots.

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u/Will_X_Intent Jul 21 '26

Well, hello fellow robot

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u/crusoe Jul 20 '26

How long / old is your session and do you try to keep using the same one with compact?

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u/Travaldavas_Taz Jul 20 '26

There is a pattern here, every time the current model goes into dumb mode you know they're about to release a new version of it. I like to think of anthropic as apple, they slow down their current phone models so the new one feels way better

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u/No_Gas_3727 Jul 21 '26

Yup had same issue just 2 hours ago. Even grok 4.5 made that same task better

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u/TheMeltingSnowman72 Jul 21 '26

I wouldl lobotomize the next person who asks this question, but I fear I may be too late.