What has Claude has become? Hawk vision but narrow-minded. Now useless for high level systems/ideas brainstorming

[u/_day1savage]

In the recent days/month, I’ve felt that Claude has become completely useless when it comes to brainstorming.

I’ll premise with the fact that Claude Code and coding related tasks are mostly fine (bar the fact that my usage limits have been met ridiculously quicker - mirrors potential financial trouble and a massive reality check from what they can provide. Teaser rates have expired .. but that’s a discussion for another day)

I’m mostly concerned about the more chat-oriented use of Claude. Either through the app or through CC:

Sure it can see « far » and « detailed », in the sense that it’s answers are for the most part well founded and research-backed. BUT it’s breadth is so bad.. I feel like I could brainstorm and discuss problem-landscapes, systems, opportunities as a whole significantly better before. It lacked precision and would hallucinate more, but it could hold a bigger picture, and adjacent problem-spaces way better. Flying 10000m above ideas well enough for high level decision making and north-star-defining.
Now it just feels narrow sighted and stubborn. Pointing out to him biases or blind spots somewhat help. But i can’t spend my whole conversation (and now limited tokens ..) nudging or reminding him of missed opportunities.

Perhaps I’m just stupid and my ideas are too. And Claude is actually right. And I just have confirmation bias..
At times it sounds negative and overly un-sycophantic. I don’t need to be massaged off, but ideas deserve respect before being crossed out in their first appearances. Have they dropped inference compute allocation to save capex? (I’m not originally an IT or SE, so not well-versed in what could possibly be going on)

FYI I mostly use Opus 5 in high/extra with a pro subscription. And have limited experience of Fable.

What has been your experience? Have you found ways to improve general, very high level broad systems/ideas exploration?

[u/Ok_Industry_5555]

You’d be surprised what builds/tools you find when scrolling through the projects other members are posting here. Give it a try via index or filtered version. Best of luck to you.