Claude Code is genuinely and literally unuseable for me right now. Max x20 subscription and I’ve had to stop. No recourse as to what to do. Project I was working on - in limbo. It’s become so excruciatingly slow and its responses are so dramatically less “intelligent” the past few days than i can ever remember something is really wrong with it. Same commands, same workflow last week was fine. Now its so bad there’s nothing I can do but stop and consider my options. And consider my options I will because thankfully there are real and genuinely viable alternatives now such as Codex, maybe Kimi k2.5 etc. I really don’t want to have to migrate my entire workflow to another provider but I may have no choice. Anthropic are effectively uncontactable and in any case will most lilkely not reply. One thing I know for sure is that they know exactly what the problem is generally. They either can’t or wont do anything about it. Extremely disappointing and we’ve all been here before. I don’t know what will get through to them that this shit needs to stop. The model performance degradation, the speed slowing to a genuine crawl. Isn’t it a basic requirement that Claude Code is a reliable tool? Don’t they understand that? This is so irritating I almost wish they just took their frontier level model, provided it to the goddamn military and enterprise that are fucking up the world systematically, stop offering it to consumers and be proud of themselves in their elite bubble. I simply cannot believe that they aren’t aware of this and the crime is singular: Not telling paying customers whats going on and changing model quality without being honest about it. Why in the fuck did they roll our a 1M version of they can’t handle the capacity they serve now? Why in the fuck did they remove all OpenClaw useage and literally the day after the service went to absolute shit? There’s only so much of this “black box” shit people can take. You subscribe as an honest genuine user working on work projects, you don’t spam the service, you work office hours, you use the service fairly and then due to shenanigans you have to expect the service to, without warning, go to shit. I’m far from the only one. Their gaslighting has no cracks. I don’t doubt that the team at Anthropic mean well are genuine people and we have no idea the pressure they are under to deliver but there MUST be a better way of offering a service reliably ON THE TERMS UNDER WHICH IT IS SOLD? People using this for work aren’t asking for handouts. We aren’t asking for freebies. Come to think of it, what in the fuck are they handing out free credits to people for API useage if they can’t handle the capacity they serve now? So much of what they do “means well” but is counterproductive in precisely the opposite direction. I want them to succeed. I want to keep using the service. And no, why would I use the API when they have demonstrated to me how chronically UNRELIABLE they are? Seriously? Use the API? Anyone reading this who’s experienced this knows how this feels. submitted by /u/diagonali
Originally posted by u/diagonali on r/ClaudeCode
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