Claude Code feels dumber every day: users report contradictions and made-up terminology
MixItLikeItsHot · reddit · 2026-09-18
- A developer reports Claude Code quality has degraded noticeably since Anthropic adjusted extra usage, with the model giving contradictory fix suggestions in consecutive sentences.
- Worse, it keeps inventing new terms for existing features, forcing constant clarifying questions and making the workflow nearly unusable; the poster asks whether others see the same and found workarounds.
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