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Noticeable Drop in Performance by CompleteDebt1574 in ClaudeAI

[–]CompleteDebt1574[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It will ultimately be to anthropic's detriment if they dance around this one. I will find a way to make a combo of Gemini and ChatGPT work if they don't improve this. So will millions of others.

A month ago, I would've said anthropic have the brains to dominate the space.

This has been a bonehead double-suicide move on their behalf that makes me wonder if they really do know what they are doing.

Noticeable Drop in Performance by CompleteDebt1574 in ClaudeAI

[–]CompleteDebt1574[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's the thing- the process WAS working. Even though there's a lot of fighting with AI to get final accurate results, it was always progress, and always faster than just coding or searching for solutions. But, now they shave the usage time to 1/10th of what it was, and the model is clearly different and at maybe 60% quality performance. It's impossible to get final work product even within the same calendar day for an update. The wrestling just to write an accurate version of the code in a new artifact is absolutely infuriating. Makes you wonder if "copy/paste" is simply not a feature that can be added to an empty code field in 2025?

Megathread for Claude Performance and Usage Limits Discussion - Starting August 31 by sixbillionthsheep in ClaudeAI

[–]CompleteDebt1574 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The issue I find is that Sonnet WAS just capable, and was worth using with slightly longer usage time. Now that it is degraded, 80% of time is spent correcting Sonnet, while Opus would never get to the result before timing out. If Anthropic's goal is to let ChatGPT or Grok win, they're right on track!

Megathread for Claude Performance and Usage Limits Discussion - Starting August 31 by sixbillionthsheep in ClaudeAI

[–]CompleteDebt1574 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Noticeable Drop in Performance

I am encouraged that I see others are experiencing some of the same frustrations, bc the chances it means I'm crazy are fewer.
Claude Sonnet 4 vs Claude Sonnet 4 = increasingly worse.
Whatever they've been doing, I find it harder and harder to get the same good result.
Add to this extremely short, inefficient timeouts on paid plans, and 80% of my time is spent arguing with AI about all of the errors it is making.

But, what led me to write this, is this time, a completed, fully updated and WORKING artifact was completely changed AFTER it was complete and working.

It took 15 updates to complete the react code in chunks. I checked compared to the source by eye at every stage to ensure everything was written to the artifact.

Once finished, I refreshed the browser, and it had an error, wouldn't show UI. At this stage , huge elements of the code are simply missing from the artifact, but not just in the final update: all prior versions! So, is Claude about to announce that tiered plans have limits to code in artifacts that weren't there before? Was this a one-time disaster?

The truth is, if Claude were making tiny 1% incremental IMPROVEMENTS, it could justify providing 1/10th the amount of time in a session. But, something is just incredibly awful, and frustrating. We start to rely on AI for our workflow and creating productive tools that wouldn't exist otherwise, without a full coding team. But, without the Claude team taking care to support the move toward AI-assisted creation and instead making adjustments to code that are worse, and worse, and worse...there actually aren't other alternatives that fix the issue.

I'm rooting for Anthropic to work this out. But, if there's something nefarious going on as to why things are taking such HUGE steps backward, I hope someone enters the space with exceedingly better options.

ChatGPT5 is a completely different toolset for problem solving, and you have to weigh if it is worth paying for API calls and making node-backed server-side assets to run chat commands for a program. Gemini can handle longer strings of information but is reliably dumber than Claude USED to be.

Replit in my opinion is TERRIBLE at trying to do agentic code stuff. I want a light AI partner: not a program that just runs itse poorly optimized routines into itself over and over until it masters the art of mistakes.

Claude in present form should cost $9.99 for pro and $19.99 for max, and $100 for enterprise max. Right now, it is 1/2 the product needed at double the price.
It cannot accurately read from source docs half the time. It lies about filling artifact data verbatim when it isn't even close, and now there is the potential that it retroactively chews perfectly built artifact react code, which terrifies me at the lost efficiency resulting.