"Has Claude Gotten Worse?" Paying User Reports Memory Loss and Code Hallucinations
WestTransportation12 · reddit · 2026-09-08
A long-time paying Claude user reports that while the Fable launch was great, the model now battles him on every task: it fails to recall even explicitly committed memories, ignores code it already wrote, and hallucinates that previously implemented features don't exist—deleting them until he intervenes.
He says bespoke prompts and .md configuration files now yield diminishing returns, and asks whether others are seeing the same degradation, echoing growing complaints about Claude's recent coding reliability.
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