Has anyone else felt that Claude Code has become significantly less efficient/reliable over the last few weeks? I’m seeing more tokens burned on tasks that previously felt straightforward, more meandering, and generally less output per unit of usage. At the same time, the 50% usage reduction coming on Aug 19 makes this particularly concerning. For me on a max200 i have switched to sonnet5 for most tasks to make it to the end of the week peacefully. What I’m struggling to understand is the roadmap: Is the increased token consumption/“inefficiency” temporary? Has the model effectively been nerfed in some way, or is this just the consequence of newer limits/usage policies? With other models releasing on similar infrastructure and the competitive landscape moving quickly, what is Anthropic’s answer here? If you’re a heavy Claude Code user, are you planning to renew after Aug 19? I’ve been very happy with Claude Code as a product, but the combination of declining efficiency + increasingly exhausting usage limits is making the economics harder to justify. Would be interested to hear what others are seeing and, especially, whether there’s any credible indication of Anthropic’s plan from people closer to the product. Pattern which I see - a tool that confidently answers the wrong question is worse than one that fails loudly. A loud failure costs you ten minutes. A confident wrong answer gets written into the docs and cited for a month, if I keep building a playbook for learnings. submitted by /u/EnthusiasmMountain10
Originally posted by u/EnthusiasmMountain10 on r/ClaudeCode