I was working with Claude Pro $20 model for like 6 months and creating some of my own apps. I would actually wait for the limits, micromanage every session, kind of put as much as possible in the prompts and the documentation. And it was going well. I took the leap and I actually bought the max subscription. Wow, such a relief not having to worry about every prompt. And the limits are so high. But slowly, I have become more lazy, my results are not what I used to have. I sometimes keep replying to the same session when I should be starting a new one. Sometimes I just type there instead of using the Plan mode. Sometimes I forget to organize its work and tell it to document everything that it did. And it starts lacking. The agent is not you. You must manage it. You must create standard operating procedures around it that are tight. It is like having a super skilled employee. If you do not provide it with the best instructions and workplace and information, it will eventually drift and choose the easiest way. And I know things change regarding limits and tokens and stuff like that. But I do not think they “nerf” intelligence, unless you can provide clear benchmarks of the same tasks coming from opus 5 on release and opus 5 now or something tangible rather than anecdotal evidence, I am starting to create this theory in my mind that the more advanced the model, the “dumber” you become. submitted by /u/SystematicArt
Originally posted by u/SystematicArt on r/ClaudeCode
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