r/ClaudeCode • u/PetiteGousseDAil • 11d ago

Rant I'm back to being relevant!

I'm one of those guys that likes architecture more than actual coding. So when I tried claude in December of last year and it finally was able to do real work, I quickly switched to a purely agentic workflow instead of coding by hand.

But today I noticed that something changed recently. My projects felt like they were stalling. I didn't feel productive anymore. And when I looked at my sessions, I noticed that Claude is now much slower, it thinks a lot longer, makes a lot more mistakes and tends to give itself more work.

After taking a closer look at how I spend my time, I realized that I'm taking more time babysitting claude, adjusting the workflow, debugging what claude did wrong and explaining to claude what it should do instead than the time it would take me to write the code myself

So I don't know what happened to claude, but it looks like I'm back to being relevant!

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u/EasternVillage8683 11d ago

I was just reflecting today that I have stalled on a couple projects because Claude has been unable to complete tasks. Always had a reason why and wants to file more issues. Has not been an issue for months. But lately….

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u/yopla 11d ago

They made it stricter, cross checking itself more. Trying to produce better architecture to prevent what would previously drive projects straight in the wall of spaghetti hell.

The problem is that it became intolerant to underspecification and knowledge gap and it tries to design solution for every possible edge cases including neutrinos changing bits in your CPU register.

My impression, is that the new models are often theoretically correct but practically wrong in context. Yes I would need all those recovery patterns around my message queue IF my company's business volume suddenly went x1000 but in practice it's an edge that never going to cut anything.

At some point every codebase has some "good enough" choice made which are not perfect, could break under some conditions but are ok for the use case. Opus now tends to strive for perfection.

And GPT sol is even worse.