Claude Opus experiences severe failures in coding tasks today
taylorwilsdon · reddit · 2026-08-24
A long-time Claude Code user reported that Opus was malfunctioning badly. During a simple color palette change task, it ignored the provided colors, fabricated non-existent ones, and modified an unrelated interface in a different directory. The user suspects the forced invocation of the dataviz skill is causing the prompt's context to be dropped, leading to complete failures.
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