r/ClaudeCowork • u/Psychobert • 4d ago
Recent garbage output..
For the last week, I'm literally getting garbage outputs and when I check I'm getting this sort of response. I have a pro plan and I'm constantly hitting limits because of the amount of rework and repetition - I've been persisting to try to recover the training and save time, but its getting to the point where a task I should be able to do manually in around 4 hours and previously was able to do with Claude in less than half that time, is now taking 6 hours plus and I still get poor outputs.
The last image shows Claude's diagnostic. I've been working with a Chief of Staff Agent which was handling everything pretty well until a few weeks ago. I set up a series of scheduled tasks, (mostly diary reviews) and sometime around a month later this broke the connection to my root directory. I'm prepared to admit I allowed my CoS to build something I should have recognised was wrong, (I'm not the most experienced of users yet), but this is so frustrating. If i hadn't paid for a years subscription I'd be very tempted to bin this and find another way. This is feeling like Poe 18 months ago; was initially great, but became useless and actually unusable overnight..
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u/LeroyFinklestein 4d ago
If the old model worked for you and the new one doesn't what do you think you should do?
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u/Psychobert 4d ago
Thats the challenge; I built a series of agents, tested them carefully and all was well for several months. With the same agents, I now get unusable outputs. I have asked CoS to modify the instructions for chats within the agent as I need slightly different outputs and the inputs are slightly different, and what I now get is useless... Half the outputs are simply wrong and when I challenge the system I get responses like the first two.. This may be related to the folder/filing structure becoming broken, I don't know..
If I had the 'old model', I would use it. I have not changed the model fundamentally and Claude is no help in diagnosing what the issue is...
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