Claude is getting worse, according to Claude

Once the AI darling of programmers everywhere, Anthropic's Claude has been stumbling mightily, both in terms of cost and perceived quality. The service was down briefly on Monday with "a major outage," service trouble that only amplifies growing discontent from customers that even a bot can see.

The outage, which involved elevated error rates, affected Claude.ai and Claude Code from 15:31 to 16:19 UTC.

That's not all. In the past few months, Claude's answers have been getting less satisfactory, according to social media posts as well as issues filed on GitHub. This has occurred as Anthropic has had to take steps to reduce usage during peak hours to balance capacity and demand.

To get a more objective measurement, we pointed Claude itself at the Claude Code GitHub repo, filtered for open issues that mention quality, and gave ...