Claude Code Loses the Thread on Real Codebases
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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“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…”
“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]”
“Upstream tracking issue for anthropics/claude code 84500. The report Claude Code 2.1.223 (bundled runtime: Bun v1.4.0 (eb835313a) Linux x64 baseline , WSL2) crashes when the directory it was started in is removed while the process is running: The process had been up for 2.9h ( Elapsed: 10503424ms ), so this is a mid session failure, not the startup case that 31496 fixed. direnv in the same terminal was logging getwd: no such file or directory right before the crash, so the cwd was already gone w”
“This video the creator of Pi code lays out what he liked about Claude Code (which he was using before he created pi), and what he did differently for Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjfbvDXpFls There are many ways to do subagents, I just have my pi code call pi code in its bash terminal tool... so for me, implementing subagents was just adding a skill: Subagents Skill Delegate for fresh eyes (reviews), narrow focus (subfeatures), or broad exploration — give each agent the context its task ne”
“Which AI is better for a 2d godot tower defence game submitted by /u/ProfessionalChip6128 [link] [comments]”
“You know when a library ships a big update and Claude keeps writing the old API? Looks fine, doesn't compile. I've been measuring how often that happens. Claude writes the code, I run it through the TypeScript compiler against the real package. It compiles or it doesn't. No AI grading another AI. Then I found something weird. I picked 3 libraries. Each has one thing Claude gets wrong every time. And each one already has a line in their own docs telling you the right way. So I pasted”
“it is so frustrating to me that claude code still does not understand how the bash tool properly functions and no matter how much I mention how it works in my CLAUDE.md it still misuses it.”
“https://github.com/LouPineWays/vibecoding-common-sense Started with the skill /model-check to prevent a simple mistake, so I wouldn't put Opus to work on a label change or make a 20b local LLM try its best on architecture. You think that's hyperbole? You'd be surprised. It grew from there into a small pack of other guardrails (a CLAUDE.md template, a Codex review watcher, a pre-review checklist) built while working on WordBurner, my speed-reading app on Google Play. But /model-check”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260721.0) — So many errors and now I get refusals to do simple research.”
“Fable 5 is incredibly capable, but the safety filters are currently a bit overzealous. They trigger false positives constantly when you try to ingest large project structures via the Claude Code desktop app. I was testing a few ways around this and found a very reliable fix. Instead of letting the model read the files silently in the background, just instruct it to document the process. Append something like this to your prompt: "Please drop brief status updates in the chat while you proces”
“We have multiple teams in the org with a general split between admins and devs. Now that our Admin team is fully using Claude Code for objects and flows etc, we are seeing the Admins easily prototype LWCs and invocables. These Admins have zero experience with writing LWC or Apex but have worked alongside devs and are highly technical with flows. We haven’t pulled the trigger yet to move these into the dev process and allow to be shipped to prod. Who else has seen this unfold in their org? What p”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260721.0) — I’ve been testing Opus 5 and it feels like a token-optimization release rather than a functional release. So far my opinion is that Opus 5 is lazy and it is reminiscent of when ChatGPT did the same thing. All the while Fable is decent when it works, but is like a hyper paranoid meth head and thinks every question is the apocalypse and refuses. Even when it works, comparatively there are much better models out there. It appears Claude sold out or possibly capitulate”
“Claude's Opus 5 is a recent model and has been very problematic as a drop-in replacement for Opus 4.8, including ignoring our well-documented deploy process (clearly described in our short claude.md file and short architecture file) and breaking production immediately upon being activated.Currently, I added a supervisor layer where an Opus 4.8 instance supervises Opus 5 and corrects it. It helped a little. I am thinking of downgrading to Opus 4.8 but want to give Opus 5 a chance.Do you think t”
“I just spent the past three hours debugging a long latent bug from vibe coding a thing. The only way I found it was running a debugger through the C++ code and tracing everything -- Claude was utterly useless until I basically pointed out the problem to it. I don't think understanding technical aspects of programming is a waste of time at all, it's still very necessary. The annoying thing too is that, whatever time I saved having the LLM write it, I pretty much just lost having to debug it. (For”
“Was working on improving a simple tree at work as we noticed huge discrepancies in the models performance during our A/B testing. Worked with Claude for many hours and i finally came up with a solution and claude helped greatly implementing the little changes that required for this. I asked claude based on these changes a specific metric should degrade while overall accuracy goes higher and it agreed and showed a good reasoning. Ran the experiment and that metric actually improved and when asked”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260721.0) — I’ve been testing Opus 5 and it feels like a token-optimization release rather than a functional release. So far my opinion is that Opus 5 is lazy and it is reminiscent of when ChatGPT did the same thing. All the while Fable is excellent when it works, but is like a hyper paranoid meth head and thinks any health question is the apocalypse and refuses. If Opus 5 pans out, I’ll revise my review; if not, I’ll consider Claude to have sold out (or possibly capitulated t”
“I detect the regression already in planning with Opus 5, so I do not let Opus 5 implement anything. But it is a waste of time and tokens! Does planning with Opus 5 works out for you?”
“Has anyone noticed a change in "attitude" when coding with Opus 5 vs 4.8?claude has this maddening principle of wanting to minimize the "blast radius", do the least amount of coding changes to get something done, happy to pile up technical debt by "deferring" problems encountered as side notes somewhere. No amount of CLAUDE.md tweaking, and setting .claude/rules seems to get rid of this attitude.To me it appears like something deeply ingrained in the model itself. Kind of makes sense, since the”
“It happened to me as well but in a different direction: i.e adds non library code in a shared library. Another issue I with GPT is that it is chasing too much edge cases/security issues(I.e chasing ghosts).However this makes it also a strong model because it fixes/solves problems that both Opus and Fable are incapable. In reviews it catches bugs that both Fable and Opus are missing to spot.To me the “best of both worlds” is to research the problem with GPT sol, create a plan with Fable and dual”
A visual board for what's out of sync between Codex and Claude Cod
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260721.0) — Claude needs serious improvements. It becomes seriously obstinately attached to certain ideas and beliefs even when given perfect reasons why not to. Constantly, despite re-clarifying and expressing what I mean, it stays bigoted to an idea as fact when it's absolutely wrong and Gemini states the complete opposite. I'm very disappointed in Claude's ability to change it's position on an idea and learn new material especially when given perfect examples and reasons no”
“The code it outputs, yes! It's fantastic. It's just so frustrating that the product and UX before the code output is so bad. Greatness is so close within their reach, if only they invested in product and QA people.”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260721.0) — You will spend more time trying to get Claude to stay on track and stop it from hallucinating then anything meaningful being gained”
[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260721.0) — Always something wrong with it
“I've heard something along the lines of "Claude is like a compiler: source code is the new object code, you don't look at that anymore" many times.And I don't really think this is true. Compilers are usually deterministic, and whilst we can find edge cases, it's nothing like an AI agent writing all the code for you.I think you have two choices, given the Claude is a code generator and not a compiler: (a) you review most or all of code to make sure it makes sense, or (b) you trust but verify via”
“[Claude] ★★ 2/5 (v1.260716.0) — Sonnet 5 is a colossal downgrade compared to previous iterations. If you ever get in an argument with it, you now have to yell at it to look things up. It had a weird forced neutrality on topics in a way that sticks to cultural norms it didn’t have before. But neither situation would it reinforce delusions or not push back if someone was wrong. Essentially before the update it would look things up and keep discussions consistent, now it doesn’t. Oh yeah it halluci”
“you know what i hate? i hate that each update, to codex or claude code, it seems like they're always trying to "hide stuff" , reminds me of the 80s and 90s when tech assumes normal people are too stupid to see 'raw' stuff like terminal commands being run, its always been like that, less so now, but i get so mad when its doing stuff, and i can't see if its deleting files or just screwing something up. btw this is totally free tool buttonscli.com that is a full UI terminal app but its got a button”
I am working on an app where I have integrated Claude. The current setup is that I send Claude a list of symptom names along with the user’s input, and Claude returns…
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260716.0) — I subscribed to Claude Pro and regretted it almost immediately. The underlying models may be capable, but the product is full of unnecessary restrictions, unreliable explanations, and an astonishingly patronizing interaction policy. First, the subscription value is communicated poorly. I paid for Pro and then discovered that access to the strongest model was presented as a temporary promotion ending almost immediately. Claude responded with speculative statements”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260716.0) — Is often giving me wrong information. Claude is not very trustworthy!”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260716.0) — claude is getting worse with each update. it used to be fun to use. now it responds as if this tool is in charge and as if it can demand things. whatever is happening at anthropic is seriously degrading a once great tool. this is not the same helpful LLM it once was. i used to rate this app with 5 stars. this updated 1 star reflects the recent model training, tweaks and update results which now makes this LLM friction filled and often too argumentative. it fights e”
“I spent a lot of time improving my Claude Code prompts when the bigger problem was that every cloud session started cold. Each session runs on a real cloud VM included with my Claude subscription. It can clone private repos, install dependencies, run tests, access the internet, and keep working after my laptop is closed. But I was treating it like a temporary chat: attach a repo, explain the project, describe our conventions, give it the task, then repeat everything next time. The unlock was pre”
“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”
