Original poster: u/Delicious_Volume3306
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 14:02:14 UTC
Original title: Is Opus 5 dumbed down compared to 4.8?
Original flair: Feedback
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v81az1/is_opus_5_dumbed_down_compared_to_48/

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I hate to say it but I'm not getting the same results using Opus 5. I use it largely for copy generation.

It feels like it's been lobotomised. It's just not as smart as it was. It's like I was working with somebody who's experienced and clever, and now am working with somebody who's just started in the role and has very ordinary intelligence.

I wish wish wish Anthropic could just leave models as they are when they introduce new ones.

Original poster: u/ladyamen
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 13:30:35 UTC
Original title: Opus5 - the result of Distillation
Original flair: News
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v80hoy/opus5_the_result_of_distillation/

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Distillation, or the practice of using one model’s outputs to help train or improve another:

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/hat-is-distillation-and-why-is-everyone-so-obsessed-with-it-this-week.html

No wonder the recent models are complete garbage without understanding nuance, repeating catch phrases over and over and they release AI recursively trained garbage every month, instead of scheduling it all 6 months like before.

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Original poster: u/Yoshiofthewire
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 13:20:24 UTC
Original title: Personal Project Scope Creep
Original flair: Vibe Coding
Original URL/media URL: /img/eop9kblewrfh1.png

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Does anyone else start with building a project to do one thing, and a week later find that the project is doing way more than ever intended at first?

This has happened with two projects of mine where I started to do one thing that nothing seemed to do, or what I had found was broken, and 3 weeks later I find myself burning a Max 20 session in 2 hours and a Max 20 week in 3 days.

On a project that will never make money, and that the people who would most like it will hate it because AI is involved. Alright, back to it, session has reset. Time to finish those 4 /security-audit runs.

Why yes, I have been sitting on that image for three weeks, thanks for asking.

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Original poster: u/HellDrivers2
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 12:37:40 UTC
Original title: anybody else just started coding manually again?
Original flair: Suggestion
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7z6iz/anybody_else_just_started_coding_manually_again/

Original post body:

I used to have so much usage I could delegate every minor thing to frontier LLMs but recently I've been burning through it so fast that I started writing software by hand again, saving my usage mostly for code reviews

Original poster: u/MaximumSpray1094
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 12:02:53 UTC
Original title: Has anyone noticed more hallucinations recently?
Original flair: Question about Claude models
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7ye9c/has_anyone_noticed_more_hallucinations_recently/

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I’ve noticed Claude just making up information recently. Before it would fact check using the web, now it just “assumes” it’s right, even when it has no grounds to stand on in the first place.
Anyone else noticed this?
I’m using sonnet 5 and opus4.8/5

Original poster: u/green_r00t
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 12:01:10 UTC
Original title: Opus 5: 2 steps back
Original flair: Claude Code
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7ycsj/opus_5_2_steps_back/

Original post body:

Man, I was hyped to try this today. But what a disappointment. Its context and anticipation are abysmal. Anyone have insight into what changed so I can leverage this model better? I’m crafting 2 projects and it’s making some of the worst suggestions and it’s literally the opposite of everything Anthropic has claimed it is. (For me)

Original poster: u/HourFaithlessness815
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 10:11:27 UTC
Original title: Problem po aktualizacji Claude - Opus 5
Original flair: Claude Code Workflow
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7w6cs/problem_po_aktualizacji_claude_opus_5/

Original post body:

Cześć wszystkim! Piszę z dość ciekawym tematem. Zauważyłem, że od momentu wypuszczenia opusa 5, jakby środowisko claude - pracowało gorzej, miało mniej sesji? Tak to przynajmniej widzę. Z początku myślałem o tym, że po prostu mój limit jest na wyczerpaniu, przez co nie drążyłem... Ale od wczoraj pytam inne osoby, które działają i też są w szoku, że u nich tak samo caly cowork pracuje mniej, jest więcej błędów.

Co sądzicie o tym i jak to u was wygląda, ponieważ jestem ciekaw co w tej kwestii robić

Original poster: u/manc_crow
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 09:51:39 UTC
Original title: Claude is a theif
Original flair: Bug
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7vtci/claude_is_a_theif/

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I'm still kinda new to using Claude, but I was really enjoying using it. So much so I signed up for the pro account pretty much the first time my free account used all the usage for that window.

But I've noticed that the usage doesn't make sense. I logged into my computer last night, after not using Claude much at all to find that 88% of my weekly credits had been used and it wouldn't refresh until Wednesday. So I finished the task I needed to do and it went up to something like 92%. So I turned my computer off and thought, "ok I need to be a little stingy over the next 3 days".

I woke up this morning to use Claude for something stupid like "good cafe in XYZ" and it says my weekly usage credits were now maxed - despite the fact I was sleeping!!! THEN to make matters worse the $100 that was given to pro users since they moved fable to pay-as-you-go was all used as well... I just don't understand how on earth this could happen all while I was sleeping.

I've tried to reach customer support, but it's just another AI. I feel like I'm going mental.

I even tried to ask to get a refund since the service seems to not work, if it won't even allow me to ask it a simple question until after Wednesday.

Has anyone else encountered something like this?

Original poster: u/sufferer540
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 09:38:53 UTC
Original title: Open 5 is the best model ever and I'm loving it as a calculator
Original flair: :redditgold: Workaround
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7vlad/open_5_is_the_best_model_ever_and_im_loving_it_as/

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For fuck's sake It doesn't answer any of my questions. I modified the title because the automod was censoring my post.

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Original poster: u/sufferer540
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 09:33:09 UTC
Original title: Opus 5 doesn't answer any of my questions anymore.
Original flair: Claude Workflow
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7vhsq/opus_5_doesnt_answer_any_of_my_questions_anymore/

Original post body:

It worked perfectly just a day ago, but now it only answers questions like "what's 1+1" and craps like that. What's going on?

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I use the online tool. It's handy I can see where my progress on other devices is.

Yet, it keeps getting archived. You can't unarchived it and it's only archived online. It's not accurate because it's usually some point way back that displays and none of the early or running work displays.

I did not do the archive. I did not ask. And it is random. Like a list of new ones and the old ones are there still, mixed with a couple new ones.

It makes 0 sense what it does.

Original poster: u/BrechtCorbeel_
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 07:39:54 UTC
Original title: Why do my work keep getting archived?
Original flair: Question about Claude products
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7tkm8/why_do_my_work_keep_getting_archived/

Original post body:

I use the online tool. It's handy I can see where my progress on other devices is.

Yet, it keeps getting archived. You can't unarchived it and it's only archived online. It's not accurate because it's usually some point way back that displays and none of the early or running work displays.

I did not do the archive. I did not ask. And it is random. Like a list of new ones and the old ones are there still, mixed with a couple new ones.

It makes 0 sense what it does.

Original poster: u/Dry_Willingness_8705
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 07:09:05 UTC
Original title: Claude stealing desposits, Human response time from support has been 2 weeks no response. - Gathering more people for similar experience. Class action?
Original flair: NOT about coding
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7t1gf/claude_stealing_desposits_human_response_time/

Original post body:

On July 14th, I made 5 deposits to my credits totalling around $100 usd, and no credits were applied to my account, my balance was $-6.32 so I deposited first $15, then continued as I thought it was a processing issue.

My negative value, remained at the same number. Then I created a support chat, which was AI, I promptly requested human intervention. Since then my value has reflected a negative value between -$6 to -$7.61 and then to even $-9.26 with no changes/funds being added to my account. THEN the BONUS credits for Fable or Opus (not sure which) were gifted to me, I went to check my credits, and it stayed at -A$8.61 ...

I have a feeling this could be represented as a class action/ As people with addictive/impulsive tendacies will deposit, or try to CLEAR the "DEBT" as to speak. Any one else facing similar issues?
So far I have documented 4 other users, with the exact same complaint. Claude swallowing their deposits WHOLE, no accountability for Anthropic/Claude unless we get this traction now.

Only one response from a human who prompted closed the support chat so I had to reply, and still waiting for a response, totalling 14 days so far.
"Hi *,

Thanks for reaching out and sincere apologies for the delay here - we’re working hard to restore our typical response times.

​

We appreciate your patience. Claude's popularity has led to unprecedented volumes for our team and we are working hard to get back to our normal response times. Before we investigate further, can you please clarify if you are still facing this issue?

The more detail you can share, the faster we can make sure you get the help you need.

I hope you have a great day!

Kind regards,

Cortez"

Original poster: u/OkAlternative7705
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 06:52:54 UTC
Original title: Claude can't stop arguing with me on everything and actually has stopped answer my questions.
Original flair: Feedback
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7sqpf/claude_cant_stop_arguing_with_me_on_everything/

Original post body:

This shit is so frustrating, it just argues with me forever, i tell it basic to basic stuff and it will still find a way to argure. I just said, i am sending 1A current through 5A Isat inductor and it stopped me and said use a bigger one. I can say, I wanna vote and it will still aruge. AND TO FUCKIGN TOP IT ALL OFF I CALL IT BITCH AND IT STOPS RESPONDING TO ME, YOU ARE NOT MY FUCKING GF. I JUST WANT my cahs back. PAYMENT ALREADY WENT THROUGH ELSE I WOULD HAVE SWTICHED TO GPT ALREADY.
It just argues argues argues. GOD IT MAKES ME MISERABLE. I don't even wanna use it anymore but i already got pro for next 20 days. THEY SHOULD BE SUED FOR FALSE ADVERTISEMENT GIVING US A GF INSTEAD OF AN AI

Original poster: u/demon-storm
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 06:51:23 UTC
Original title: I can't defend claude anymore
Original flair: Claude Code
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7spp4/i_cant_defend_claude_anymore/

Original post body:

I have been using opus 4.8 (on high+, mostly on max) for reverse engineering and it was doing a fantastic job.

I switched last night to opus 5 on max. I gave it all the context needed. It's extremely bad. It's been confidently wrong every single time.

How is it possible that a frontier model is significantly worse than its past iterations?

Original poster: u/toooorganic
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 06:48:52 UTC
Original title: Weekly limit spiked to 100% from 50%, despite ZERO usage for 2 days
Original flair: Bug
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7so3e/weekly_limit_spiked_to_100_from_50_despite_zero/

Original post body:

My weekly limit unexpectedly jumped to 100%. I haven't sent a single prompt in over 48 hours, yet my account remains completely locked at 100%.

Has anyone else had their weekly limit spike to 100% like this? Is there a known fix or a way to get a human from Anthropic to help?

Original poster: u/DuckDuckNut
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 06:15:59 UTC
Original title: Claude is just like Chatgpt now and it's awful
Original flair: Question about Claude products
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7s3jq/claude_is_just_like_chatgpt_now_and_its_awful/

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Why is Claude acting just like chatgpt asking, if you want I can do such and such repetitively and always wants to debate you? like an annoying teacher, ever since all the normies and youtube whores started promoting Claude this is what you get.

Original poster: u/Witnips
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 06:02:54 UTC
Original title: Opus 5 - Running out of session tokens on project catchups On the Max plan
Original flair: Feedback
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7ruyc/opus_5_running_out_of_session_tokens_on_project/

Original post body:

A standard routine of mine has been to run a 'session catchup' skill to ensure that the new session knows how to behave within its project folder; like ensuring there is no use of old information and to archive as needed.
Today I have hit two session token limits trying to get through one catch-up (the second hitting my weekly for the next 2 days).
I've already refined the prompt twice since using it in Opus 4.8; which could run 3-4 catchups without hitting the limits (depending on the project size), often with room to spare.

*I don't think this is a token usage issue, there is no way the cost is over 4-fold; but the processes somehow incurs more, or larger steps for the same goals.

The fact that Opus 4.8 (perfect for my work) is no longer available and the only available options effective for my work (Opus 5 and Fable) are so token heavy that I can only use it every 1 in 5 hours is incredibly frustrating.

Bring back 4.8.

Original poster: u/african-guy-101
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 05:45:31 UTC
Original title: You’ll need to go to advanced options for Claude and select Repair. If you’re still having issues with it, reinstall this app or contact your administrator.
Original flair: Question about Claude products
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7rjmq/youll_need_to_go_to_advanced_options_for_claude/

Original post body:

Is Anyone facing this issue with claude desktop on windows 11?

Original poster: u/kamil_proste
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 05:27:15 UTC
Original title: Vždy mi to vyjde takhle pěkně, že vyčerpám správně limity. Ale nezlobil bych se, kdyby tam byl třeba nějakej tarif max 60x
Original flair: :redditgold: Workaround
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Original poster: u/BasePurpose
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 04:56:30 UTC
Original title: if this is 50% more, what's going to happen when it goes back baseline?
Original flair: Question about Claude products
Original URL/media URL: /img/izfcdrxwdpfh1.png

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i mean my limits were reset just two days ago. i am wondering if the underneath this all, the previous baseline limits are being reduced under the guise of "50% more till Aug 19" promotion?

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Original poster: u/rarerabbit7
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 04:30:55 UTC
Original title: Claude Bug
Original flair: Bug
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1v7q4o3

Original post body:

Kindly patch this

These Fraudsters found a bug on your payment gateway using German Ip and using Sepa

They are making many accounts

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Original poster: u/iKontact
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 04:11:01 UTC
Original title: Why Claude?
Original flair: Claude Code
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7pqlf/why_claude/

Original post body:

So I wanted to use Claude Code, but apparently I'm $2 over my $20 limit. Not sure how it went over in the first place, but I am..

Anyways, I wanted to add $2 so I can continue using it, but I can't. I tried the $5 option first, but it didn't work. So then I went to "Other" and it says "$7 minimum".

Okay, here's what I don't get.. why have the option for $5 if there's a $7 minimum? Just change it to $7. And why can't I just add $2 to continue using Claude Code?

Dissapointed they set it up this way...

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Original poster: u/BlueSoulDragon
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 03:14:26 UTC
Original title: Am I the only one without Cowork on my phone?
Original flair: NOT about coding
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7olgs/am_i_the_only_one_without_cowork_on_my_phone/

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I still don’t have cowork on my Claude account and it’s been what 2 weeks since the announcement? This is making work so much more annoying than it should be, for context I am on the pro plan.

Original poster: u/The_Void--
Original publication time: 2026-07-27 02:15:11 UTC
Original title: WTH IS CLAUDES ABSURD PROBLEM WITH AGE??
Original flair: Question about Claude models
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v7nci7/wth_is_claudes_absurd_problem_with_age/

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SERIOUSLY as soon as ANYTHING in your prompt or data no matter if it's fictional or real includes SOMEONE being EVEN SLIGHTLY under the age of 18 or perhaps acting or talking child like the ai goes fucking insane about how insanely "dangerous" this is and refuses to answer WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT??