Users Report Claude Suffering from Tangents and Non-compliance
diddlysquidler · reddit · 2026-08-26
Multiple users report that Claude (particularly Opus 5 with Max Thinking) has performed poorly over the last three days, frequently going off-topic and ignoring instructions. Even paid Max users experiencing these issues with low context are considering returning to manual workflows.
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