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Is it able to process a prompt on each file in a folder-full of files and then return the collated results? That's the functionality which I could use for my day job, but I'm not finding an LLM which directly affords that capability (without programming or other steps which are difficult on my work computer).
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Anthropic claims that they don't degrade models under load, and the performance issues were a result of a system error: https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/72f99lh1cj2c That being said, they still have capacity issues on any day of the week that ends in Y. No clue how long would that take to resolve.
Then check the news again. They already admitted that due to bugs model output was degraded for over a month
They need to focus on fixing reliability first. Their systems constantly go down and it appears they are having to quantise the models to keep up with demand, reducing intelligence significantly. New features like this feel pointless when the underlying model is becoming unusable.
This can't be understated. I started using it heavily earlier this summer and it felt like magic. Someone signing up now based on how I described my personal experiences with it then would think I was out of my mind . For technical tasks it has been a net negative for me for the last several weeks. (Speaking of both Claude Code and the desktop app, both Sonnet and Opus >=4, on the Max plan.)
As an example I’ve been using an MCP tool to provide table schemas to Claude for months.
There was a point where it stopped recognizing the tool unless mentioned in early August. Maybe that’s related to their degraded quality issue.
This morning after pulling the correct schema info Sonnet started hallucinating columns (from Shopify’s API docs) and added them to my query.
That’s a use case I’ve been doing daily for months and in the last few weeks has gone from consistent low supervision to flaky and low quality.
I don’t know what’s going on, Sonnet has definitely felt worse, and the timeline matches their status page incident, but it’s definitely not resolved.
Opus 4.1 also feels flaky, it feels like it’s less consistent about recalling earlier prompt details than 4.0.
I personally am frustrated that there’s no refund or anything after a month of degraded performance, and they’ve had a lot of downtime.
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Anthropic claims that they don't degrade models under load, and the performance issues were a result of a system error: https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/72f99lh1cj2c That being said, they still have capacity issues on any day of the week that ends in Y. No clue how long would that take to resolve.
Frankly, I don't believe their claims that they don't degrade the models. I know we see models as less intelligent as we get used to them and their novelty wears off but I've had to entirely give up on Claude as a coding assistant because it seems to be incapable of following instructions anymore.
- They admittedly go off of "vibes" for system prompt updates[0]
- I've seen my coworkers making a lot of bad config and CLAUDE.md updates, MCP server span, etc. and claiming the model got worse. After running it with a clean slate, they redacted their claims.
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Have you considered perhaps that you are, indeed, out of your mind? Or more precisely, that you could be rationalizing what is essentially a random process? Based on the discussions here it seems that every model is either about to be great or was great in the past but now is not. Sucks for those of us who are stuck in the now , though.
Anthropic literally stated yesterday that they suffered degraded model performance over the last month due to bugs: https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/72f99lh1cj2c Suggesting people are "out of their mind" is not really appropriate on this forum, especially so in this circumstance.
They need to focus on fixing reliability first. Their systems constantly go down and it appears they are having to quantise the models to keep up with demand, reducing intelligence significantly. New features like this feel pointless when the underlying model is becoming unusable.
This can't be understated. I started using it heavily earlier this summer and it felt like magic. Someone signing up now based on how I described my personal experiences with it then would think I was out of my mind . For technical tasks it has been a net negative for me for the last several weeks. (Speaking of both Claude Code and the desktop app, both Sonnet and Opus >=4, on the Max plan.)
This feature is a little confusing. It looks to me like a variant of the Code Interpreter pattern, where Claude has a (presumably sandboxed) server-side container environment in which it can run Python. When you ask it to make a spreadsheet it runs this: pip install openpyxl pandas --break-system-packages And then generates and runs a Python script. What's weird is that when you enable it in https://claude.ai/setting…
I tried "Tell me everything you can about your shell and Python environments" and got some interesting results after it ran a bunch of commands.
Linux runsc 4.4.0 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 15:06:54 PST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Python 3.12.3
/usr/bin/node is v18.19.1
Disk Space: 4.9GB total, with 4.6GB available
Memory: 9.0GB RAM
Attempts at making HTTP requests all seem to fail with a 403 error. Suggesting some kind of universal proxy.
But telling it to "Run pip install sqlite-utils" worked, so apparently they have allow-listed some domains such as PyPI.
I poked around more and found these environment variables:
HTTPS_PROXY=http://21.0.0.167:15001
HTTP_PROXY=http://21.0.0.167:15001
Anthropic have their own self-issued certificate to intercept HTTPS.
One step closer to mass unemployment, yay!