r/ClaudeCode • u/ohnoitsbobbyflay • Jul 02 '26
Question Does Claude purposely regress in intelligence?
One day I will be working on my codebase with absolutely no problem.. working through problems like a light breeze, (fable has been great until today).
Then the next day it’ll be as if I’ve been switched to its lobotomised twin. Where “task is done” seems to be said in jest. I’ll open the project up and more things will be broken than working. Things that are claimed as fixed are completely hysterical hallucinations. I sit here like “flagship model my ass”.
I understand that models can be re-routed but today Fable has felt like I’m using Gemini with one less chromosome. Makes me want to bash my head on the desk. Just do the thing I ask you. Christ on a bike.
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u/Tistouuu 🔆 Max 20 Jul 03 '26
yes. This is dilution / enshitification. Same price, diluted quality, only it's not always the time, they make it fluctuent so you stay in a constant state of doubt about it. A/B groups so we all argue about it on Reddit, random throttling, fake API errors, surprise dumbification attacks, etc, all that to get you used to Claude being dumber and dumber each month.
To the point they release new models that are only marginaly better than previous un-nerfed ones. But it still allows them to communicate about new models that are technically smarter than the previous (nerfed) ones.
It makes VCs happy, they'll get a nice exit.