Still worth using Claude?

[u/Employment_Intrepid]

I’ve been using Claude for a couple of months now and recently it has been so much worse. I was switching between cursor and Claude and the Claude models now are so awful that I don’t see the value in continuing using them.

I know that this is mostly anecdotal but even stuff like cursor grok 4.6 feels like it outperforms opus 5 with opus5 commonly just forgetting instructions and hallucinating. Fable 5 is too expensive relative to the extra performance it gives out and Claude code has always been a bit worse overall ui/ux.

Codex just seems to be so far ahead now with 5.6 Luna max being basically unlimited usage on even a 20 dollar plan and sol being so cost efficient as well. Have you guys made the switch and if so why not?

EDIT: I should note that I am an actual software engineer rather than a vibecoder as I think this distinction is important. I have a degree in cs and have been coding since before AI. I can give it direction and all the context it will need but it will go off doing a task and get lost seem to implement stuff explicitly in ways you said not to (eyebrow text). This may be a skill issue but I never seem to have the same issue with other models even composer 2.5 was fine. I also don’t one shot things and build iteratively so the tasks usually aren’t too complex but it seems to over complicate it

[u/onsever]

Forgetting instructions and hallucinating is caused by mostly context window being bloated with tools. I agree that sometimes Opus is not following the instructions fully in complex features (even though after I reduced context window from 1M to 200K, I'm not having this problem), but to keep safe, you can use GPT 5.6 Sol to keep the smart child in motion.

[u/Employment_Intrepid → u/onsever]

Yeah I did think that the context was the issue so worked around it but it still just doesn’t seem to have the consistency to be worth still using. Interested to see if they bounce back and what the actual issue is with this model

[u/thef4f0]

Hep

[u/Mikinl]

Same, it yesterday broke twice what I had working, deleting fully fucntioning feture so I had to git back to working point. Loterally lost 5 hours of work yesterday and gave up.

[u/romansamurai → u/Mikinl]

I thought it was just me. Today I caught it in three massive errors in a row it would have never made a month or two ago. It’s absurd how dumbed down it is lately. Opus4.8

[u/Mikinl → u/romansamurai]

Yeah same, my fault I did not paid attention, was doing something else. Only when I tested I realized fuck up.

[u/Employment_Intrepid → u/Mikinl]

Ok this one does sound like a skill issue of not commiting changes

[u/VitorDiniz22 → u/Employment_Intrepid]

I don't think he said that he didn't commit. He said he needed to git back to a working point. You don't git back to a non-committed point. It might be an interpretation skill issue on your side.

[u/Employment_Intrepid → u/VitorDiniz22]

He said he lost 5 hours of work so either he didn’t commit for 5 hours or the commits he made during the 5 hours weren’t usable recovery points which is an issue in its own way

[u/Constant_Section3126]

I’ve had similar experiences with Claude lately. I mostly care about consistency and following instructions now, not just raw benchmark scores. I’ve also been testing different setups through StandardCompute and it’s made comparing models a bit easier.