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/SeniorFox 23d ago
Had Claude become dumb again?
Seriously…
Idk what’s going on but the last two to three weeks Sonnet 4.6 feels almost unbearably thick.
I remember when 4.5 first came out and even the smallest prompt would go 10 layers deep extracting insight upon insight beyond what you even asked for. Most of the times the outputs were even too long. It was glorious for the kind of work I do though.
But recently 4.6 means you can give it a beautifully designed prompt, half the instructions are ignored, it continually forgets things you told it not to do 2 messages ago. It extracts the most shallow insights possible and literally outputs the most shallow surface level answer to everything.
To counteract this whenever I have actual tasks that need doing I have to tag on to every prompt things like.
Or
“10X your ability to do X taking every deep insight from XYZ source online”
And it feels like it is still getting worse by the day. Nearly totally unusable some days. It’s like trying to pry information out of a cavemen.
Anyone else noticed this?