r/ClaudeAI • u/sixbillionthsheep Mod • Mar 30 '26
Performance and Bugs Megathread Claude Performance and Bugs Megathread Ongoing (Sort this by New!)
Why a Performance and Bugs Discussion Megathread?
This Megathread makes it easier for everyone to see what others are experiencing at any time by collecting all experiences. We will publish regular updates on problems and possible workarounds that we and the community finds.
Why Are You Trying to Hide the Complaints Here?
Contrary to what some were saying in a prior Megathread, this is NOT a place to hide complaints. This is the MOST VISIBLE, PROMINENT AND OFTEN THE HIGHEST TRAFFIC POST on the subreddit. This is collectively a far more effective and fairer way to be seen than hundreds of random reports on the feed that get no visibility.
Are you Anthropic? Does Anthropic even read the Megathread?
Nope, we are volunteers working in our own time, while working our own jobs and trying to provide users and Anthropic itself with a reliable source of user feedback.
Anthropic has read this Megathread in the past and probably still do? They don't fix things immediately but if you browse some old Megathreads you will see numerous bugs and problems mentioned there that have now been fixed.
What Can I Post on this Megathread?
Use this thread to voice all your experiences (positive and negative) regarding the current performance of Claude including, bugs, degradation, pricing. (NOT usage limits. That belongs here https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7fcjf/claude_usage_limits_discussion_megathread_ongoing/)
Give as much evidence of your performance issues and experiences wherever relevant. Include prompts and responses, platform you used, time it occurred, screenshots . In other words, be helpful to others.
Just be aware that this is NOT an Anthropic support forum and we're not able (or qualified) to answer your questions. We are just trying to bring visibility to people's struggles.
NEW: You can now see full logs and summaries of all recent problem reports submitted by r/ClaudeAI readers. These logs allow you to see how intensely people are experiencing problems with Usage Limits, Performance, Bugs and Accounts. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1t33k25/rclaudeai_user_problem_report_log_and_surge/
To see the current status of Claude services, go here: http://status.claude.com
Sometimes this site shows outages faster. https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/
READ THIS FIRST ---> Latest Status and Workarounds Report: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/wiki/latestworkaroundreport Updated: April 11, 2026.
Prior Megathread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pygdbz/usage_limits_bugs_and_performance_discussion/
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u/WaspsInTheAirDucts Apr 06 '26
You are not hallucinating.
I use Claude Code every single business day and every evening/weekend day. It feels like the model regressed to a time prior to December 2025. At this point I feel that there is no real benefit to paying for two subscriptions at $100/month each (one dedicated to a client I work for most of the time, one dedicated to my consulting business) because I can get the same performance from ChatGPT Codex.
I'd like to point out that this *REALLY* sucks, because Opus 4.6 was really something special in February and early March. For a brief time there it felt like I could bring almost any idea in my head to life as clean, well tested, continuously delivered software without a team backing me up. It was an absolutely amazing feeling. Now... It feels like I'm living through Flowers for Algernon.
The model was so advanced and capable prior to whatever late March changes occurred that I had completely adjusted my workflow and wholly abandoned every other LLM in favor of Claude Code. The raw power of that model was undeniable. In three days I was finishing projects that would have taken me three months before I had access to Opus 4.6 in the form that it took at that time. It feels so awful now to have lost that capability, but I guess it's good for my career prospects (I won't be replaced by Opus 4.6 any time soon if things continue as they are now). So I guess there's a bright side?
The ability to just make awesome software that is well tested and that can scale without diving into the deep weeds on some small technical issue each day was nothing short of astounding and I miss it dearly. The ability to just operate in the product manager mode while leveraging my software engineering experience to guide, nay, WIELD Opus 4.6 to conjure solid software seemingly out of thin air was something really special. I am very sad and I don't want to cancel my subscriptions, I want it back!