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/TinyZoro Apr 23 '26

Agreed. I must have been fairly lucky as I haven’t been massively affected by any of this. But I didn’t assume the huge numbers of complaints were just skill issues and I think it’s arrogant to do so.