Why has my Claude had a lobotomy?
I've been a Claude user for a year or so and have flip flopped from being a free user to being a paid user and back and forth again. I am free at the moment.
I'm currently using Sonnet 4.6 and for some reason, for the last month or two Claude is an actual idiot. 90% of conversations or questions are answered incorrectly. I question the answers and get the 'good catch, you were right to push back' crap answer and then it will give a totally different answer, sometimes the exact opposite that was given before.
For extra context, this is the text that I have in the instruction section in my settings and it's been set like this from the start: "I want honest, truthful answers. Do not agree with me because you think it will make me happy. I speak to you for a voice of reason, so keep conversation logical. Flattery is ok if it is warranted."
Did I somehow break Claude or did something genuinely happen with its brain that has caused this? Is it because I'm on the free version and it's dumb now to make people pay? I'm so let down that I'm going to stop using Claude all together if this isn't something I can fix.