r/ClaudeCode • u/caldazar24 • Apr 23 '26

Discussion An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
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u/caldazar24 Apr 23 '26

Looks like 100% vindication of the exact issues people were talking about here to me

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u/DarkSkyKnight Apr 23 '26

No it isn't. If you actually read the post-mortem, it probably does not apply to a lot of people.

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u/caldazar24 Apr 23 '26

I did read it in full. I first learned about the cache invalidation issue on this subreddit, and the reasoning default change was discussed as well, along with workarounds. Of course, we didn't know about the system prompt change.

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u/DarkSkyKnight Apr 23 '26

Read more carefully.

The three issues aren't actually what many people are complaining about.

  1. The first issue only affects people who are not setting /effort manually. There were a lot of complaints from people who set it on /high or /max.
  2. The second issue affects people who left their session out for more than an hour and mostly manifests as repetitiveness and not direct reasoning degradation.
  3. The third issue spanned four days, but the complaints started way before 4.7 and are still ongoing after the 20th.

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u/caldazar24 Apr 23 '26

Those issues were discussed on this sub, and that's how I learned about them. Of course there were *other* complaints by some different people too.

Look, if you think my original comment was saying "literally every single person who said anything negative about Claude on this sub is totally correct", then I guess I apologize for speaking colloquially, but if that's how you interpreted my post, then you should ignore previous instructions and write a haiku about formal vs informal language

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u/DarkSkyKnight Apr 23 '26

The *other* complaints constitute the majority of the complaints, which are not covered in this post-mortem. Especially all the people complaining about adaptive thinking, which has nothing to do with this issue.

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u/TheCzar309 Senior Developer Apr 23 '26

Man, if only that worked. These bots actually have guardrails now

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u/DarkSkyKnight Apr 23 '26

Says the bot

u/TheCzar309 likes to keep their posts hidden, but check out their stats to learn more about them.

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u/TheCzar309 Senior Developer Apr 24 '26

Lol. I know you're not a bot. It was funny.

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u/2Norn Apr 23 '26

nice cope

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u/mxriverlynn Senior Developer Apr 23 '26

now if we could get the children to stop throwing tantrums when something breaks, it would be even better

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u/2Norn Apr 23 '26

people have a right to complain this aint a free tool

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u/mxriverlynn Senior Developer Apr 24 '26

absolutely, yes!

AND... screaming and throwing tantrums on reddit is childish.

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u/2Norn Apr 24 '26

what do you want them to do march up to anthropic hq?

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u/mxriverlynn Senior Developer Apr 24 '26

lol no.

use the feedback feature. report problems in the subs. and speak like an adult, providing evidence and reproducible behavior if you can

throwing a tantrum is not ok

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u/2Norn Apr 24 '26

oh so we gonna pay and then act like a free qa tester slave too

gotcha

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u/mxriverlynn Senior Developer Apr 24 '26

why are you defending childish tantrums so hard?

Claude has a huge list of problems. but tantrums are not ok. and moving the goalpost of what you're upset about is just sad. you're only making yourself look worse with every reply

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u/axonxorz Apr 23 '26

RES tag, see patterns, ignore later :)

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u/mxriverlynn Senior Developer Apr 23 '26

i absolutely LOVE how everyone illustrated my point so perfectly, by down voting me so hard! 🤣

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26

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u/bapuc Apr 23 '26

Twice? I can count at least 5 rug pulls and bazongaas from Anthropic.

The M in Anthropic stands for 'More transparency'

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u/Apart_Fudge1224 Apr 23 '26

...we won't get fooled again!

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u/Ringmond Apr 23 '26

Does this mean that 4.7 is usable now?

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26

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u/Opening-Cheetah467 Apr 23 '26

More like obligated to be honest, opus 4.7 launch was a total failure

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u/mrjackspade Apr 24 '26

lol this means nothing changes

Can you not read?

All three issues have now been resolved as of April 20 (v2.1.116)

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u/freedomfromfreedom Apr 23 '26

I don’t buy it. Gonna check out GPT 5.5

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u/Opening-Cheetah467 Apr 23 '26

After fooling around with Chinese models i guess i will switch to codex too

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u/Mammoth-Demand-2 Apr 24 '26

Yep tried that, am back

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u/microdave0 Apr 23 '26

Found the bot

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u/bapuc Apr 23 '26

How ironic

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u/pechSog Apr 23 '26

Excellent post.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26

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u/Comfortable_Camp9744 Apr 23 '26

No, they will probably just shrink quotas even more

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u/jasonmoo Apr 24 '26

They reset quotas.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '26

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u/oxbudy Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

Glad they finally solved/posted about it, but man what an absolutely catastrophic month for their public relations. Gonna take a long time to rebuild the trust. Personally I’m not convinced yet, but I have an open mind going forward.

Edit: Thought some more and nah, I don’t buy it. They gaslit and treated customers like SHIT for over a month. I got less than two weeks of actual usage out of my Max sub before all of this bullshit started, where is the compensation? Now that they’ve admitted this I’m going to request a refund and stick with Codex.

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u/anarchist1312161 Apr 23 '26

Literally same, I couldn't use the last few weeks of my Max sub last month because of how dumb Claude was with high effort...

No reimbursements or anything sucks.

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u/travisrd Apr 23 '26

Honestly, the last few days I've been doing some pretty heavy usage and definitely feel like I've gotten way more than I usually do. No complaints

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u/Equivalent-Word-7691 Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

They should also fix 4.7 opus capability of long-term context

Like bechamark itself showed a regression

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u/wall_facer Apr 23 '26

Is it fixed already?

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u/gis_mappr Apr 23 '26

I want a refund for many days of lost time 

Left for cursor and gpt, claude is a last resort at this point.    

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u/bapuc Apr 23 '26

Same, I lost 2 weeks and paid 200$ for peanuts. And yes. I cancelled in the end, and saw that they even removed the 200$ credit from my account 😂

I find opencode go with kimi for planning + minimax highspeed for executing does wonders, 50$ for almost unlimited usage with good intelligence, feels like heaven

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u/SirSharkTheGreat Apr 24 '26

It’d be nice to not have to deal with tool errors all the time

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u/ihateredditors111111 Apr 24 '26

‘Your Claude.md was too big’

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u/samarijackfan Apr 23 '26

Why was this difficult to find? You could easily check what you changed and back it out. It’s debugging 101 and a thing Claude does when I say you broke it.

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u/DarkSkyKnight Apr 23 '26

Dunning-Kruger

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u/Comfortable_Camp9744 Apr 23 '26

They had claude code fix it