I guess this mostly affects plan mode for me, but when I started using Claude Code a couple of months ago, getting a plan written out, reading it to verify what Claude was doing, and just interacting with the agent was an absolute breeze. It was pretty clear to me what it meant, and it generally kept things concise, making it easy to approve and modify plans. Nowadays, I find myself getting lost in a pointless sea of words, no matter how much I adjust my prompt to instruct Claude to keep things short and concise. Every prompt to plan a change ends with this 20-paragraph plan that has 1,000 code snippets, and I find myself correcting them a lot more than I used to. A clear example was today when I asked claude to plan a change which introduces an image metadata endpoint, and Claude chose to pass it through a method about getting image info. What, it failed to realize was that the method didn’t extract the info from metadata, but rather from the file name (which leads me to believe it hadn’t read the file which contained the definition AT ALL because it was about 200 lines and the method was about 50 of those). The codebase is quite large, and there was a genuine need for this function prior to this, but it just wasn’t relevant in this implementation. This change was buried under so many snippets and text that I’m surprised I even caught it. Another clear example was Claude writing a plan which detailed creating brand new constants for URLs, despite them already being loaded from configuration IN THAT SAME FILE. The strange thing was that the other files I had made Claude read manually also used that configuration and those URLs, so, it was just baffling to me why it chose to even include that in the plan. It’s these minor mistakes buried under HEAPS of filler text ,that seems hard to read, and the constant babysitting that make me dread using this tool more and more. Especially due to the fact that I just cannot trust it’s output and planning. I’ve always worked by reviewing diffs before committing and I have seen a GENUINE and unmistakable decline in the quality of the code it outputs as well as the quality of the plans it writes beforehand. I wanted to see if anyone else was running into these issues or if I’m missing something. I understand I’m not the first to complain on here but it almost seems like it barely performs better than the free gpt-4.1 from the cheap 10$ copilot sub at this point. submitted by /u/Azmekk
Originally posted by u/Azmekk on r/ClaudeCode
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