Users Complain About Severe Claude Degradation
-rgo- · reddit · 2026-07-17
The author canceled their Pro subscription and switched back to ChatGPT, citing Claude's latest version's increased "refusal to execute," high error rates, and inexplicable throttling.
They gave examples where Fable 5, Opus, and Sonnet all insisted they lacked the tool capability to access profile memory, only changing their tune when provided with screenshots; even then, the models questioned if the screenshots were AI-generated. The author feels this is like "gaslighting" the user and suspects it's a systemic degradation in recent checkpoints.
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