I have seen so many posts that think Claude became dumber after Opus 4.6 and until Fable came out. I would like to know what kind of work are you doing (frontend, backend, non-coding)? I work at a large company and I have shipped something using Claude that a lot of people use. I used 4.8 and it understood a lot of complex code. I am talking about interacting with a million line repo, coding in a repo that was maybe 30k to 40k lines, routinely reaching 80% of 1M context, it handled everything. I was working on a tight timeline and without Claude I would not have been able to get this done. The timeline was so aggressive that I would not have signed up. Only thing I could think of is I used API pricing and maybe home-based developers are using subscription so we have different experiences (maybe because of model quantization?). I am not saying Codex is not great (I have not used it) but Claude for sure is amazing. I only have a job because I have domain knowledge and I am able to make decisions without full context or based on knowledge that isn’t always written down. submitted by /u/niceuser45
Originally posted by u/niceuser45 on r/ClaudeCode