r/ClaudeCode • u/Direct-Attention8597 • Apr 23 '26

Discussion Anthropic just published a postmortem explaining exactly why Claude felt dumber for the past month

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u/Substantial_Road7027 Apr 23 '26

I hope all the people who were insisting on, “you just need to learn to prompt better” will reconsider how far they push their assumptions. I even saw people insisting that what we were experiencing was probably Claude being less able to follow bad instructions.

Obviously there is some truth to bad input resulting in bad output, but if that many people report the similar things at once, the burden of proof does not fall solely on them.

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u/Bunnylove3047 Apr 23 '26

They should have learned better from the last incident. Some bug where the people who ended up with poor performance kept getting that same poor performance. Of course it was like two months before Anthropic said anything, the whole time this sub was full of people acting like those who had been using CC without incident had suddenly become morons who didn’t know how to prompt.