I have been using Claude for over a year, Pro and then Max, and although it has significantly helped me build a couple of personal projects that would have otherwise required considerable time, or even a team, I have noticed that it is virtually impossible to finish anything. Even though I have tried to be extremely precise and descriptive with my prompts (detailing the bugs, describing the issues, and pointing exactly to where the problem lies when I am able to identify it), the models always fix one thing while breaking another in such a subtle way that I only realise the issue exists later on. This forces me to return to Claude every day and burn through my quota to fix yet another thing that was previously not a problem. With projects like mine, two issues arise: firstly, almost without noticing, you become so frustrated with the cycle that you lose track of what is going on; secondly, you develop a dependency that keeps you hooked on the subscription. This latter point is what I have started to realise may be the real business model of these companies, as I assume this is not unique to Claude. The models never truly let you finish something, or they demand significant time and money to reach a point where the output is actually usable. I acknowledge that bug-free software is, to some extent, a utopia: software always ends up with minor flaws here or there that require refinement or small fixes. However, what I am referring to regarding Claude seems almost deliberate; it feels specifically and meticulously designed to keep you returning every day to use the service, making you believe the work is complete when, in reality, there is yet another hidden issue that was not there yesterday. I understand this may sound like a conspiracy theory, or suggest some degree of incompetence on my part, but I genuinely have nothing to gain from an anonymous rant on Reddit. This will not fix my issues. I genuinely want to understand if other users have reached the same conclusion, because although at the beginning it feels like you are advancing, you eventually reach a point where you realise you are going nowhere. The tipping point that made me think this might be a complete waste of time and money was Opus 5. It is genuinely one of the most unreliable models I have ever dealt with. It seems incredibly capable at first, but you soon realise it overcomplicates the code for absolutely no reason. Everything it outputs ends up so brittle and inefficient and labyrinthical that you are just forced to go right back and use it again to clean up its own mess. submitted by /u/Aggressive-Dream5465
Originally posted by u/Aggressive-Dream5465 on r/ClaudeCode
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