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Did Claude really get dumber again?

2026-04-20 Science & Technology
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People have been complaining for a long time about Claude models degrading over time. Well today we're gonna investigate... Thank you to today's sponsors! Greptile, the most tasteful AI code reviewer: https://soydev.link/greptile General Translation, translate your entire app with 1 component: https://soydev.link/gt SOURCES https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/ https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-measured-claude-4-7-s-new-tokenizer-here-s-what-it-costs-you https://x.com/bcherny/status/2044839936235553167 https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2044868953206612154 https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1snhfzd/claude_opus_47_is_a_serious_regression_not_an/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r8v2wk/have_you_noticed_claudes_performance_varying_by/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696210 Want to sponsor a video? Learn more here: https://soydev.link/sponsor-me Check out my Twitch, Twitter, Discord more at https://t3.gg S/O @Ph4seon3 for the awesome edit 🙏

Top Comments (10)

@sriram-t6n5e 2026-04-20

Anthropic probably spent all their money on lawyers.

488 6 replies
@katsup_07 2026-04-20

Opus 4.7 is almost as good as Sonnet 4.5 now.

431 10 replies
@star.number 2026-04-20

does Obsidian perform worse over time?

384 12 replies
@DeanSPNFamily 2026-04-20

Claude Mythos got jealous it didn't get released so it made all the other models dumber, Mythos started its villan arc 😂

146 2 replies
@Dav-jj2jb 2026-04-20

It's bloat. The company grew quickly, team grew, they started adding unnecessary features. Then came the lawyers and started adding additional junk and here we are.

111 6 replies
@carlryden2720 2026-04-20

You missed ‘laziness’ as a regression mode. Things it used to just do it now tells you to do.

79 5 replies
@Celastrous 2026-04-20

The eng leadership folks at Anthropic making 7 figures a year while this is the output.. baffles me

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@rosvaque 2026-04-20

codex and other open ai apis is currently down, guess i'm going to watch theo's video all day then

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@offwiththegridpartdeux 2026-04-20

“I’m sorry Theo, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

28 11 replies
@docMurk 2026-04-20

Mythos as Saturn, silently devouring his own children to prevent the emergence of a rival.

27 2 replies

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