[r/ClaudeAI] Claude feels much worse?

Original poster: u/SimTrippy1
Original publication time: 2026-07-13 10:49:44 UTC
Original title: Claude feels much worse?
Original flair: Feedback
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uv8474/claude_feels_much_worse/

Original post body:

This is more of a vent I guess but I feel that all my interactions with Claude are becoming increasingly more infuriating lately.

For coding, it seems lazy, often applying half assed fixes, not checking the things I specifically ask it to check, writing unnecessarily complicated code disregarding code style instructions, etc.

For other personal use stuff (I use it to track various things with very specific instructions), it constantly ignores instructions, forgets things, hallucinates all kinds of stuff, unilaterally decides things are unimportant without verifying, tries to forcibly end even relatively short conversations for no discernible reason, seems pedantic, and is just overall a huge pain in the ass. It also just seems … dumber, for lack of a better description? Even its voice mode is terrible now, they changed the inflection to a point where I’d rather not use it for brainstorming.

I’m starting to wonder if I just use it wrong but I’ve used the exact same way since late 2024 (except more structured now for code), and it used to be a pleasure to work with? If it wasn’t still overall better for code than other models I’ve tried recently, I’d jump ship. What gives Anthropic?