They can't afford to care about individual customers because enterprise demand exploded and they're short on compute

My recent frustration with Claude has been it feels like I'm waiting on responses more. I don't have historical latency to compare this with, but I feel like it has been getting slower. I may be wrong, and maybe its just spending more time thinking than it used to. My guess is Anthropic is having capacity issues. I hope I'm wrong because I don't want to switch.

I'm on max x5. No limit problems, but I am definetly feeling the decline. Early stopping and being hellbent on taking shortcuts being the main culprits, closely followed by over optimistic (stale) caching (audit your hooks!).

All mostly mitigatable by rigorous audits and steering, but man, it should not have to be.

I’ve noticed most of the complaints are about the Pro plan. Anecdotally I pay for the $200 Max plan and haven’t noticed anything radically different re: tokens or thinking time (availability is still a crapshoot)

I am certainly not saying people should “spend more money,” more like the Claude Code access in the Pro plan seems kind of like false advertising. Since it’s technically usable, but not really.

for all the drama, its pretty clear both openai, google, and anthropic have had to degrade some of their products because of a lack of supply.

There's really no immediate solution to this other than letting the price float or limiting users as capacity is built out this gets better.

Curious. Not my experience whatsoever.

I tried Claude recently and it was able to one-shot fixes on 9/9 of the bugs I gave it on my large and older Unity C# project. Only 2/9 needed minor tweaks for personal style (functionally the same).

Maybe it helps that I separately have a CLI with very extensive unit tests. Or that I just signed up. Or that I use Claude late in the evenings (off hours). I also give it very targeted instructions and if it's taking longer than a couple minutes - I abort and try a different or more precise prompt. Maybe the backend recognizes that I use it sparingly and I get better service.

The author describes what sounds like very large tasks that I'd never hand off to an AI to run wild in 2026.

Anyway I thought I'd give a different perspective than this thread.

Doesn't "poor support" implies that there is some sort of support? Shouldnt it be "no support"

I hope codex doesn’t decline the same way

I’m blown away by how good it is lately

The timeline doesn't make any sense. How can you subscribe a couple weeks ago and the problem start 3 weeks ago and yet things also went well for the first few weeks. was this written by GPT 5.5?

I still haven’t seen any other models be as complete as Claude inside Claude Code. I bet Anthropic knows this and they turn the knobs and see people’s reactions… I have been planning with Qwen3.6 Max inside opencode, absolutely game changer. Opus can then follow the plan quite detailed and like this I can make progress on my toy apps on Pro plan at 20/mo.

For work, unlimited usage via Bedrock.

Yes I’d like to get more usage out of my personal sub, but at 20/mo no complains