Claude Code Loses the Thread on Real Codebases
25 posts across 11 communities in the last 30 days; 28% from App Store.
“My experience is that Claude has gotten absolutely terrible at switching between planning and execution, and never gets it right, and then I waste tons of turns fixing intent, and trying to make claude forget the bad shit it did.There needs to be a mode where it's "don't change…”
“Agree Opus 5.5 is incredible and efficient with Claude Max Usage.What a jump after the writing slop you got from Opus 5. I had moved to using Fable for my orchestration workflow mainly due to the communication issue (I think Opus 5 was capable enough but spoke in riddles so you…”
“I haven't used it, so forgive me for the maybe dumb question, but when Claude fixes a problem like this does it explain in detail how it did it and why it broke in the first place?”
Developers are experiencing frustration with Claude Code's performance, citing issues like inaccurate code generation, failure to follow through on tasks, hallucinations, and disruptive interruptions. These problems hinder productivity and require significant manual oversight, undermining the promise of autonomous coding assistance. The rapid release cycle and community reactions further complicate the user experience.
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“Developer Theo Browne used Claude Opus 5.5 to build a Rust-based version of the TypeScript compiler, type checker, and language server. The project reportedly achieved nearly 100% compatibility with TypeScript's conformance tests. According to the developer, the Rust implementation runs around 2× faster than Microsoft's…”
“i have mentioned in the readme. yeah, claude was used. obviously this is not slop, i have coded many parts myself including the foundation, desgined the entire thing, and let it do the backend, frontend is managed by me, and i understand what it's writing or what i wrote. [re: Presenting Morrow, an open source, privacy focused, and always free alternative!]”
“everything i do is through claude code. everything. my output has been insane these days, and it's fun! it does the boring stuff for me like scouring the internet for industry and competitive analysis and organizing my thoughts in a cohesive way. it has revitalized my love for my job tbh. and i can get all the data i need to make well thought-out decisions. [re: Company is all-in on LLMs, and now I finally see where the worry is coming from]”
“People keep saying this but Claude Opus is pretty dang good at debugging issues. Even Sonnet has been pretty solid. I know it's the news we don't want to hear, but it's really dang good. [re: How dependent on AI is the company you work for?]”
[Claude] ★★ 2/5 (v1.261009.20) — Opus 4.6 was the last good model
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.261007.20) — Refused to look at reference material and wants me to spoon feed details myself ?? Also just decided to do its own version of the work without asking. Wasting my tokens”
“it entirely seems to me like claude code is vibe coded end to end [re: Strata rewrote their Github history to wipe evidence of Claude-authoring]”
“tbh Claude can do better here. maybe make it faster and compress everything into a 3-sec ad, the avg attention span of chronic digital consumers. [re: If you combine OPUS 5.5 + BLENDER for motion design Claude can do everything]”
“Bug Description still not working Environment Info Platform: linux Terminal: kitty Version: 2.1.293 Feedback ID: cabc444d 790d 44c1 8916 45ba79f1bf83”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.261002.20) — Second time I spent six hours and first time Google lost the document without telling me how to save it or that I needed to and now Claude did the same thing and it goes over and over, tries to tell me where to find it, but none of it exists. There’s no settings tabmay be a high pay if I pay would it come back hasn’t told me that and if it would come back, I would pay, but it hasn’t told me that and I’m not gonna pay unless I know it’s gonna come back. I’ll just s”
“My experience is that Claude has gotten absolutely terrible at switching between planning and execution, and never gets it right, and then I waste tons of turns fixing intent, and trying to make claude forget the bad shit it did.There needs to be a mode where it's "don't change code, don't lock in decisions, lets explore", and the problem with plan mode is that it all of a sudden presents a too-long, multi-screen plan that's just completely off base with basically two options: "go and do it all"”
“Agree Opus 5.5 is incredible and efficient with Claude Max Usage.What a jump after the writing slop you got from Opus 5. I had moved to using Fable for my orchestration workflow mainly due to the communication issue (I think Opus 5 was capable enough but spoke in riddles so you lost confidence quickly)..With 5.5 it needs less steering now and communicates well, and I have had the same CC session running for the last week (obviously compacting with durable plans etc as the post), with it PM'ing m”
“I’ve gotten Claude to do things it claims will take 4 weeks in a few hours. Does that count for compressed time?”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260930.20) — After months of building a codebase, fighting with Claude and its constant refusals, bugs, crashes, outright lying —I’m giving up. This thing is fundamentally unreliable. Use ChatGPT instead , it might code a little slower but at least it’ll listen to what you’re telling it.”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260925.19) — I can no longer use Fable as i keep getting downgraded with no way to correct it.”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260925.19) — Pretty bummed the paywall keeps growing. Hard to justify paying for pro when Claude code makes as many mistakes as problems it fixes.”
“Criticality: P0 — critical. This is the delivery path for the whole product; today nothing reaches the model. Effort: 1–2 days. What's wrong python3 tools/exporter.py target claude writes files Claude Code does not recognise. Skills. The exporter writes flat files like .claude/skills/adr skill.md . Claude Code only loads skills laid out as .claude/skills/<name /SKILL.md . From the Claude Code docs: "A flat .md file directly in .claude/skills/ is not loaded as a skill." The exporter also strips t”
“One of my key complaints with Opus 5.5 so far has been that sometimes it'll execute long-running commands in a way that is blocking any further input or it starts doing stuff without providing much visibility. I've tried giving it instructions to stop doing that but it keeps falling into the same trap.I feel like hybrid AI-driver UIs are a bit underexplored and are probably a good way to increase visibility. Right now I have Claude just prepare a bunch of logs for me to tail in order to increase”
“[Claude] ★★ 2/5 (v1.260916.19) — I love Opus but this app has lots of issues with the most important UI component: the text field where you actually type to Claude. I’m not crediting the iOS team with the model (which is 5/5 but which they didn’t develop) but I am blaming them for the parts of the UX they’re directly responsible for. I encourage the developers to try editing long messages in a conversation that already has several (which have been added in the same session). Highlighting freq”
“Submission checklist [x] This is a bug, not a usage question. [x] I added a clear and descriptive title that summarizes this issue. [x] I used the GitHub search to find a similar question and didn't find it. [x] I am sure that this is a bug in LangChain rather than my code. [x] The bug is not resolved by updating to the latest stable version of LangChain (or the specific integration package). [x] This is not related to the langchain community package. [x] I posted a self contained, minimal, repr”
“Component: skills/design wrapper/modes/polish.md , skills/flow/polish execution.md , skills/design wrapper/command map.md Kind: gap Version: claude tweaks 6.126.0 Symptom The polish phase dispatches Impeccable's refinement set ( polish , clarify , harden ) and every suggestion driven command over the changed UI files. On a record whose spec pins its copy ("See demo", "Play demo", "Open the page", "What's new", "How to") and whose e2e suite asserts those strings with exact: true , clarify (UX cop”
“I'm surprised you think Claude Code is good software. I find it so hard to use because it is fundamentally constrained as a TUI. It is buggy, clunky and slow. It is sooo slow.One example of what is particularly bad with it: tool calls and progress. Codex UI does it so much better. The way in which CC waits for a task to complete etc is really poorly done compared to Codex.Another thing that's missing: no way to continue a side chat in Claude Code - this is easy in Codex with /side and it is supe”
“The defect .claude/commands/project/next.md:30 says the engine at /.claude/scripts/project next.py "is always present with this command", and line 73 invokes it there: Both installer loops that create that symlink skip non executable files: /cpp:init Tier 2 [ f "$script" ] && [ x "$script" ] || continue /cpp:update Step 5b the same gate (tightened from a .sh glob by 669) And the file is not executable: So on a fresh host , /.claude/scripts/project next.py is never created and /project:next fails”
“Current Claude Opus 5 on the 20 USD sub does way more with an internal VM running code itself to verify things, the huge context window and the automatic RAG when you go over the context window when using Projects, the search tools interleaving retrievals with reasoning and further searches, etc. It's all way better than it was some years ago and it's light years ahead of the older free offering of shittier and smaller claude models with nerfed context windows and no code execution. You”
“I haven't used it, so forgive me for the maybe dumb question, but when Claude fixes a problem like this does it explain in detail how it did it and why it broke in the first place?”
“Summary Every Opus entry in the Claude Code model catalog is a [1m] variant, so a 200K context Opus cannot be selected anywhere in bb — not in the model picker, not through settings, not through the CLI. Users who want Opus at the standard context window have no option other than dropping to Sonnet 5. Current behaviour (0.43.0) CLAUDE CODE ACTIVE CATALOG DATA in the provider claude code builtin plugin is: | id | display name | | | | | claude fable 5 1 | Fable 5.1 | | claude opus 5[1m] | Opus 5 (”
“Summary claude code is the one adapter of nine that the adapter audits detect broken symlinks block does not cover, on the grounds that it "is covered by its own direct audit test above". That test does not cover the branch in question, and a mutant proves it: claude code 's broken symlink error can be deleted outright and the suite stays green. Findings 1. [MED] The branch is unexercised ( cli/adapters/claude code.js:199 ): 2. [MED] The test being relied on cannot detect it ( cli/test/cli.test.”
“Preflight Checklist [x] I have searched existing issues for similar reports [x] This report does NOT contain sensitive information (API keys, passwords, etc.) Environment Claude Code running inside Google's Antigravity IDE (Windows 11), account with access to multiple organizations. What Happened The account this Claude Code instance is signed into has access to more than one organization. There is no discoverable way to switch organizations from within the Antigravity IDE's bundled Claude Code”
“Type: <b Bug</b Window: Agents I've already reported these 2 issues where Claude isn't working correctly https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/332905 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/332896 but after updating to the latest version it's got even worse now the models don't load I get no models available. If select an imported session I get Provider claude could not describe claude:/ and in the output logs I have errors like I've followed the instructions on https://code.visualstudio”
“Description Claude Code (CLI) has no tool or connector that can read the contents of a claude.ai Project — specifically the "context files" attached to a Project (a Cowork project, in this case), which function as a shared knowledge base for that project. This significantly undercuts the value of "sharing" a Project. Sharing a Cowork/Project with a colleague is presumably meant to let them work with that context, not just view it once in the claude.ai UI. But today: the colleague can open the sh”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260831.0) — The AI randomly lost my document I want it to update. It happened twice”
“Problem CLAUDE.md tells us to "profile before micro optimizing", and nothing in the tree makes that possible. There is no profiler wired up, no documented recipe, no sanitizer or heap profiling build type, and no convention for where a profile goes or how it is recorded. Grep the repository for valgrind , massif , callgrind , perf , heaptrack or sanitize and the only hits are the word "profile" used to mean a demand curve in a benchmark description. The result is that performance and memory clai”
“Since the recent updates, I have the feeling that Claude Opus is becoming dumber on complex tasks.Things that used to work cleanly in a single prompt now fail completely. In coding workflows, it constantly ignores mandatory CLAUDE.md project rules, makes unsolicited edits to unrelated files, and breaks working code. It starts arguing based on stale comments, fails to update documentation when code changes, and edits based on blind guesswork instead of actually verifying the codebase first.I even”
“What's wrong? Maybe some steps to reproduce. Getting error The provider could not be opened yet after successfully adding the integration and restarting OpenCode (both using the reload feature, as well as fully quitting the mac app and reopening). Where does it happen? Desktop (macOS) Version (if known) 1.22.0 Screenshots / recordings (optional) <img width="2794" height="2240" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user attachments/assets/b0cb00f7 4e6d 4b3d a6e8 7cf9627737fe" / Logs (optional)”
“The problem with sandboxing is that the regular dev env (massive IDE:s, cloned megarepos, installed dependencies and so on) just won't sandbox very easily. I can't set up a "second machine" or an "isolated environment" to run claude cli in. At least not in the sense of a VM, physical hardware, container etc. Not sure what the best practices are for whitelisting tools/directories and so on, but so far the only useful mode I have found is just "allow everything and go to lunch". And it doesn't fee”
“I often face bugs that Claude cannot solve when the project is already big enough in late stages of development and every fix in the code creates another one. submitted by /u/Relative_Tangelo_848 [link] [comments]”
“I am on v2.1.245 and I just noticed this morning that I'm getting blocks that look like:(summarized)Grey thinking looking text that tells what was done or what Claude considered or confirmed.I had sessions open last night and I don't remember this. Personally I find this great. Fable would often go dark for long periods of time with the prompts I gave it and then drop a huge wall of text for all the work it had been doing in the background.”
“Hi all. Im a full stack developer and our company head managed to get team Claude licence with the aim to speed up work output. So us devs been using Claude code in our projects by making prompts and honestly been coding less and less because of it as Claude seems to understand the codebase and spit correct outputs. For example, In our project we have tons of Model layer representing our database relation schema. Before claude we used to manually run command line to generate model classes and lo”
“Ok, so does anyone else feel like Sol is way better than Opus 5? I had switched to mostly using Claude early this year, but in the last two months it feels like Claude has regressed whereas Sol is by far the best version of ChatGPT I have used. Anyone agree? Disagree? Know what the underlying technical reason for this could be? submitted by /u/DanThePartyGhost [link] [comments]”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260820.0) — Watch how Claude pretends to do work, adds subtle mistakes that require you to use agents more and more to fix the things they contrive to go wrong to steal from you. It’s real.”
“> I actually can't read this.I don't think anyone can. At this point, I'm almost starting to believe it's an intentional move to discourage reviewing AI-generated commits by making them extremely unpleasant to read, in favor of just pushing straight to master without question.”
“Please help me configure claude code tips submitted by /u/Ok_Angle9951 [link] [comments]”
“Not because it's bad at Salesforce. Because it's getting really good at making changes to Salesforce. “Just build a Flow for this.” “Add an exception.” “Make it update this other object.” “Actually, add a field for that too.” All of a sudden, the thing that used to take a developer half a day takes 20 minutes. Which is great. Until six months later when someone asks: “Why does this Flow exist?” And nobody knows. I wonder if we're about to get really good at creating Salesforce techni”
“What's broken The claude artifact creation skills and commands don't seem to transfer to the paseo claude agent from actual claude code. I would be happy to see /artifact and the artifact skill working in paseo like in native claude code. It does seem like an internal claude code tool, so it may need a bit of claude code reverse engineering. Currently I have this workflow when wanting to share an artifact with my teammates: 1. I write a markdown doc 2. I open a claude code terminal tab, and tell”
“[structural debt:de38faa4ac94e8a561af948ff5f7b1425bf811b475a2b0da43599a50dca94cbc] Dimension: observable failures Severity: medium Confidence: certain In copy skill , a declared skill whose resolved source path is missing or is not a directory is silently dropped with a bare return . The sibling CodexRenderer. write skills raises for the identical condition ( codex.py:127 128 , raise FileNotFoundError(...) ). A profile that declares a skill with a broken source path therefore renders successfull”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260814.0) — I kept getting error message after error message. Telling me, even though it was the first time I sent the message, that I already had sent the message and Claude seems to think it responded. I finally got thru to it by telling it the error message I was getting and it said it wasn’t my fault, but then it kept happening. Not a good experience. Things have been going downhill with ChatGPT lately as well as it keeps trying to force me to upgrade. Gemini works we”
“CLAUDE.md is the canonical orientation document for assistant sessions, and parts of it now describe a codebase that no longer exists. It is read as authoritative, so a stale entry does not merely fail to help — it actively sends work down the wrong path. Everything below was verified against the tree at d41bd8e. Commit signing is entirely absent The largest gap. Signing exists on both sides and appears nowhere in the document: src tauri/src/git/signing.rs (266 lines) is missing from the git/ mo”
“Disclaimer the second and third patches produced with Claude Code, and a also use Claude Code to write some of this issue; I reproduced the failures and verified the full build and test suite locally. The enable yosys=0 configuration currently fails to build, and once it builds, three tests that need Yosys are not excluded from it. There are three independent problems. All are below with repros and patches. 1. Missing includes in BooleanPipelineRegistration.cpp The else (no Yosys) branch of mlir”
“Idk how it’s possible to build an ai harness this bad, but somehow they did it, and even when you choose opus 5 as a model they somehow nerf it it feels like with whatever crap system prompt they have in the Harvey layer. In the meantime most people — including the juniors — don’t even know you can choose opus 5 on Harvey let alone why you would do such a thing. Crazy. That is all. submitted by /u/Throwaway_biglaw [link] [comments]”
“Prerequisites [x] I am running the latest code. Mention the version if possible as well. [x] I carefully followed the README.md. [x] I searched using keywords relevant to my issue to make sure that I am creating a new issue that is not already open (or closed). [x] I reviewed the Discussions, and have a new and useful enhancement to share. Feature Description 现在llama.cpp加载的大模型，claude都不能使用，非常不方便，而ollama都可以，能不能增加让claude使用llama.cpp加载大模型的功能 Motivation 现在llama.cpp加载的大模型，claude都不能使用，非常不方便，而ollama都可以，能”