r/ClaudeCodeTLDR

Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vsczue/claudes_enshitification_is_officially_in_full/

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You're getting low quality results from your $200 plan?
Add more context and send better prompts.

You're burning through usage credits super fast all the sudden?
Buy more credits.

You're Claude instance is blatantly ignoring clear instructions?
Try a better model.

You're hitting multiple limit blocks because you followed our previous advice?
Hit the thumbs down button to show that you're displeased.

Want to talk to a real support human to diagnose the issues with your product?
Upgrade to enterprise.

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I've been a paying customer for years.

I've experienced all the ups and downs of the Claude saga.

I've built apps, websites, workflows, and more using Anthropic's API.

All in all, after spending tens of thousands of dollars with Anthropic, they've made it abundantly clear how little my business is worth to them.

But after seeing hundreds of Reddit posts, X discussions, and creators talk about just how poor their experience has been lately with Claude, it shows just how little respect or appreciate Anthropic has for their paying customers.

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Usage issues are met with vague corpo-speak.

Output reduction in quality is addressed with new unoptimized models.

Predatory pricing model strategies are back-peddled when publicized.

I could go on and on...

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The product has gotten worse.

The company has gotten more predatory.

And the cherry on top, you can never, no matter how hard you try, will ever get the opportunity to speak with a real human that represents this tool you pay hundreds of dollars for.

Despite them having hundreds of billions of dollars to throw away on Superbowl ads and dunk on OpenAI, they cannot afford to treat their largest consumer base with respect.

And they get away with it because they know that no matter what they do, there will be no repercussions.

And that's the perfect recipe for enshitification to take place.

And if you think it's bad now, wait until they IPO and have share holders to accommodate over their customers.

We are seeing a sneak-peak for what's in store for this product, and my advice, be cautious on how you shape your workflows and what you build on.

These AI companies do not care about any of us, and the harder they pretend to, the more obvious it is that they don't.

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Long story short, look into self-hosting, open source platforms, and invest in the tools that are built for us, not for venture capital and share holders.

And to Anthropic, I genuinely hope that whatever it is you're pursing is worth it, because without your early adopters and most active customers, you'd be absolutely nothing still living in the shadow of OpenAI.

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vskrop/talked_to_my_exmeta_sister_about_claude_replacing/

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My sister used to be an engineer at Meta. she barely writes code from scratch anymore.

literally a massive chunk of her implementation is just routed straight through Claude Code. typing out boilerplate or manually wiring up basic components is basically a thing of the past for her.

seeing the constant existential dread in this sub lately (with all the daily posts about how Opus 5 or Fable is going to replace us), I asked her if she was worried.

Surprisingly, she is one of the least anxious devs I know.

we were talking about it over the weekend, and she basically broke down her day-to-day into five parts:

1. Looking at broken telemetery, user feedback, or business metrics, and deciding what is actually worth building.

2. Writing the proposal, arguing with PMs, and convincing leadership to allocate time and headcount.

3. Designing system architecture, writing code, and pushing the PR.

4. Waking up for a 3 AM incident call when something breaks, isolating the bug across conflicting services, and owning the fallout.

5. Interviewing, mentoring juniors, and keeping the team from quitting.

right now, Claude is mostly eating part three. its getting scary good at syntax production.

And that footprint is expanding. You see it with Claude handling the syntax, and other tools like lovable,Enter Pro , v0 trying to automate the infra and deployment side. watching how these tools try to stitch together the rest of the pipeline, like connecting frontends to databases and deployment, makes me wonder how much of the broader implementation pipeline is actually going to be left for us to manually wire up.

the implementation layer is getting compressed. But here is the uncomfortable truth that keeps her job safe: the tool cannot take responsibility for the outcome.

even if tools like Claude Code write and deploy a setup in minutes, an AI still can't tell a business which problem is actually worth solving. It can't negotiate a technical tradeoff between two stubborn infra teams.

most importantly, you can automate the work, but you cannot automate the accountability.

the code might be written by Claude, but the PR still goes out under your name. When a badly prompted agent hallucinates an aggressive database migration, or a missing row-level security policy exposes user data, the company is not going to page Anthropic. they are going to page you.

Management doesn't care that the AI wrote it. You reviewed it, you merged it, you own the incident.

The AI transition probably won’t make engineering irrelevant. It’s just making syntax production cheap enough that we can finally see which parts of engineering were never about typing code in the first place.

Engineers whose entire career identity is built on translating explicit Jira tickets into syntax are exposed. But engineers who can deal with ambiguity, defend an architecture, audit AI output under pressure, and own the risk? they are about to become way more valuable.

It does make me wonder, though. If Claude Code is handling the vast majority of the actual implementation work, are your tech leads actually measuring your performance now? are they still counting PRs, or has the evaluation metric shifted to something else?

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vscjcz/why_does_claude_code_say_things_like_thats_about/

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Surely I’m not the only one who has seen this happen but wondering if anyone has an answer. Many a session I’ll make a plan with Claude and it will outline the tasks and estimate a time usually in days, and then proceed to do it all in 20-30 minutes. Is it because of its training data or does it just have no concept of time inside a GPU? Curious what the community thinks…

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vsh3yg/why_do_you_prefer_claude_code_over_ainative/

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I've been using Cursor for most of my day-to-day dev work, and I'm genuinely curious about why so many developers seem to prefer Claude Code.

Whenever I look at the workflows people describe with Claude Code - planning, agentic implementation, running commands, MCPs, rules/instructions, multiple agents, worktrees, etc. I keep thinking: I can already do most of this inside Cursor.

And with Cursor, I also get the benefit of having all of that integrated directly into the editor: diffs, file navigation, multiple agent sessions, code review, context, terminal access, and so on.

I'm not saying Cursor is better. I'm actually trying to understand what I'm missing.

For people who have seriously used both, what does Claude Code let you do that either:

1. Cursor genuinely can't do, or
2. Claude Code does significantly better enough that you're willing to give up the more integrated IDE experience?

Is the advantage actually a specific feature? Better agent behaviour/harness? Scriptability? Composability with other CLI tools? Running lots of agents in parallel? Something else?

I'd especially be interested in answers from people who switched from Cursor to Claude Code and stayed there. What was the thing that made it click?

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vrnqnc/fable_on_subscription_vs_api_billing_are_two/

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I have 4 Claude accounts all on the Max 20 plan. Over the last 4 weeks I have noticed a slow and steady reduction in quality to the point they are no longer usable. I have a lot of experience in Dev (30 years) and about 8 months of heavy AI development.

I spent the entire day today comparing Fable on Subscription vs Fable on API Billing. I tasked them both with a new feature comprising a frontend dashboard, some rolled up data for reporting and some basic CRUD endpoints. I have a bunch of skills the agents need to follow to ensure design and architecture consistency in terms of domain separation, scalability and security.

Fable on Subscription jumped right in and made a dogs bollocks of it, just as it has been doing for weeks now. After round one we had 14 bugs filed, the UI looked like it had been drawn in TextEdit and the architecture skills were simply ignored. It also spent about 4 hours in reviews with other Claude agents and Codex/ChatGPT and circumvented a few P1s it decided were not important. After a lot of fixes and back and forth, we finally have a usable frontend but there is no way I would ship this feature due to the sub standard coding.

I switched to API Billing. I loaded $100 and did the exact same task in a new session. From the very first response I knew it was different. It came back with a list of concerns, hard push backs and we worked through it for about 20 minutes together resulting in a decent plan. It made zero mistakes and one shotted it in a beautiful design staying true to the architecture guidelines. $72 spend in 2 hours.

These are very different models.

My current conspiracy theory is my $800 a month in subscriptions has earned me a place in the "Aggressively move to API Billing" cohort and have nerfed all my subscription accounts. At $36 / hour my spend would be about $15k a month if I do make the move. Is this where it's heading?

I was really hoping the Chinese models would keep prices down, but they are still way behind the Fable I saw today, and also not that cheap either. Are we nearing the end of cheap intelligence?

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vqsvg9/august_19th_50_additional_claude_code_limits/

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Well guys, hate to say it but with the reports this morning of users seeing instant 30% usage on their accounts (some weren’t even using them) we can assume that anthropic is in fact preparing to remove their 50% additional usage promo, effectively reducing all plan usage by ~33% (I assume theyll use 30%).

This is gonna hurt. Only thing that would redeem it for me is if they removed the 50% Fable usage cap.

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vr8vo5/weekly_limits_50_higher_expires_tommorow_good/

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In case someone forgot... Just to mention, tommorow will all posts crying about limit if they dont extend this bullshit.

Original link/media URL : https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2078511173759324328

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vqvua8/wtf_is_wrong_with_the_limits_suddenly_50_limit/

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It's been 1 day since my reset and have not used more than before, but it's already used 50% of the weekly limit?

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vqoba2/something_is_seriously_wrong_with_anthropic_right/

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I'm on 20x, compared to last week, when I also used fable 5 high a lot, now 4 prompts burn through my entire week in 15min??!!? Am I getting scammed right now?

Was still having a lot of headroom before, but now a single prompt easily hits my 5 hour limit, this is just outrageous.

Original link/media URL : https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1vqoba2

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vpyugk/anthropic_has_nerfed_every_model/

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Opus 5 is obviously a nightmare, and I was relying on Opus 4.8. But, now that's also behaving exactly like Opus 5. The only way I can get good quality work is if I use sonnet now and check after every small thing. Fable is usable but its so expensive.

I miss the time when it was a treat working with these models and everything just flowed. Nowadays with 5.6 Sol's over-engineering and Opus 5's lying, I have to wake up everyday and decide which model I'm gonna have to fist fight if I wanna get any work done.

Is this just going to get worse from here.

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vr2z2r/guys_how_do_you_use_the_time_between_your_prompts/

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I usually just start scrolling reels if I am not looking at what its thinking, but that is cooking my brain, what do you all do?

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vphk9s/usage_limits_are_an_absolute_joke_and_getting/

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Yesterday a two hour session took an entire 5hr window and 17% of my weekly limit. Today I resumed that thread and did NO code and maybe half an hour of chat and THAT used a whole 5hr window.

I know what you're going to tell me and I do not give a shit. It is disgusting we have to spend THIS MUCH mental energy on efficient prompting, figuring out how to migrate threads every....three messages I guess, worrying about restarting an old thread with useful info cause it'll eat the entire window, etc. Bullshit trivialities that completely obscure the genius of the actual tool and ruin the experience of using it.

Imagine if you bought a Model T and you had to fix the steering and buy gas every five miles.

Feel free to flame me if it makes you feel more smug.

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vq8y3t/what_are_we_even_doing_what_is_the_endgame/

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Using LLMs to discuss ideas, plan, write code, review code, write documentations/diagrams, understand existing code (if at all), and we are calling this problem solving and using our mind?

What are we solving if Claude/LLMs are solving most things? Is this even software development anymore if we are not developing most things?

Grinding to learn and develop a skill and solving a problem is no longer valuable because 100 dollar sub is all it costs anyone to have those capabilities. Sure they may not do a great job with the generated code as a seasoned software developer but in todays time, does most people even care about the code when no one can review huge amount of code written by LLMs?

ALL the tech subreddits are now endlessly littered with "I built ...xyz" or "I was tired of doing [....] so i built ... xyz".... and we all know "who" really built it though, don't we? Apparently post 2025 all the reddit members are now "genius" and are "magically" building libraries when pre 2025 or 2024, the same subs had posts like "HELP ME, which library to use" or "tried this library and it is cool" or "stumbled on this amazing library" or "can anyone help me with this problem" or "how would you solve this problem" and so on.

Some of the delusional virtue signalling we hear all the time:

1. LLMs are just another tool like IDE (and which IDE's were thinking and writing code on their own without a human typing?)
2. I will just do high level work (like what? passing the ticket number to LLM?)
3. It will create more jobs in different areas (and what are the results?)
4. LLMs showed me and taught me many approaches that I didn't considered (and what will you do with that learning if you are not solving problems on your own).
5. Learn AI (you mean learn to prompt and vibe code?)
6. I am 5x more productive (in producing slop which a poor human has to review but at a human pace or not at all?)
7. I was able to complete so many personal side projects (and who will buy that slop when everyone can generate that slop?)
8. I don't think LLMs will take jobs..... and those same devs ironically say "I was able to finish few weeks work in a few hours" (all logic is lost despite writing logic for a living)
9. LLMs can't replace all engineers (but it reduced hiring by 30% or 40%)
10. Sure claude created the architecture plan, wrote the code, wrote the docs, verified the code etc. but I was the one who prompted it. Without me Claude is nothing (yeah Sherlock, thanks for sharing that claude needs a prompt to start working)
11. Claude is a junior engineer (which seniors depend on and are solving problems they themselves are not capable of solving despite being "super senior")

This has been said many many times but it deserves a callout again because it is fitting.... us devs cheering for AI is the same as chicken cheering for KFC.

So, if software developers no longer want to "develop" software then what is the endgame? what are we even doing at this point? Are we encouraging the extinction of our own profession? what's next then?

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So, I have been using fable since it got released. For months it was giving fairly good results, but recently few weeks ago I started getting very low quality results. It finishes tasks without finishing them, constantly lies and tries to convince you that you are wrong, and can't stop arguing without getting pushed to verifying what it said. But well, we all were getting that all the time anyway. Just now it seems the amount of this "AI bullshit" seemed to increase.

I am writing this post because I found some weird things in current Fable behavior. For example it's comment formatting. I noticed for a long time now that last Opus models format their comments in multiple lines, like this:
# Those comments are made of multiple lines
# that contain a single sentence, they are of
# the same size, but Claude usually outputs long comments anyway

But when I started using Fable it stopped formatting comments like this, and started creating much shorter one line comments, without multiple lines. Even when the comments became bigger it still was one comment. But now, few weeks later, I noticed that Fable also started formatting it comments in a few lines, like Opus does. Maybe it's a feature of Claude Code, I don't know, but Fable use to create more concise comments.

Also, it's responses became longer. Opus and Sonnet models always created long report-like, confidence bombing responses, almost to any question. Fable was the first Claude model that gave concise responses, and still explained very well. But again, for some reason now when it's asked anything it now gives long detailed responses for anything it is being asked.

I double checked if maybe for some reason I used Opus instead of Fable, or if was out of Fable quota and it auto-routed to Opus. Tried in different repos. But still got same results.

Did anyone else notice it? Did I miss anything?

Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1voy5cp/am_i_using_claude_code_wrong_or_is_vibe_coding/

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I’m an accountant with zero software engineering or computer science background, and I’ve been using Claude Code to build a personal project to streamline my workflow. It has auth, tools, UI, etc., but honestly, the biggest thing I’m struggling with is how damn long everything takes.

At this point I just put it in a loop and leave it running overnight. I’ll wake up and it’s still running 😂

What I’ve been doing is dumping a big list of things I want to change, then Claude Code puts them into a backlog and works through them one by one.
It’s basically been running 24/7 now.

But I feel like it’s really slow, so I’m curious about people who’s expert at this:
Am I using Claude Code wrong, or is vibe coding supposed to take THIS long?

Just curious what everyone else’s workflow looks like as well.

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