These days, I spend time training people using this kind of tools. I am glad it's called as such. It's much comfortable to explain to a tech person that it's "badly named" and that it should have been named "Code Interpreter" instead than explaining to a non tech that the "Code Interpreter" feature is a new cool way to generate documents. Most people are not that comfortable with technology, so avoiding big words is a nice to have.

I've nicked a sentence from your article to use as the title above. Hope that's clearer!

Given their relationship with AWS, I wonder if this feature just runs the agent core code interpreter behind the scenes.

> Version Control

> github.com

pour one out for the GitLab hosted projects, or its less popular friends hosted on bitbucket, codeberg, forgejo, sourceforge, sourcehut, et al. So dumb.

It works for me on the https://claude.ai web all but doesn't appear to work in the Claude iOS app.

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.

Odds are the new container and old JavaScript are using the same tool names/parameters. Or, perhaps, they found the tools similar enough that the model got confused having them both explained.

It edits it for me but it tries to edit it "in place" where it messes up the version history and it looks very broken and often times is broken afterwards. Don't know why they broke their best feature while ChatGPT Canvas just works.

I saw this yesterday. I was asking it to update an SQL query and it was saying, 'I did this' and then that wasn't in the query. I even saw it put something in the query and then remove it, and then say 'here it is'.

Maybe it's because I use the free tier web interface, but I can't get any AI to do much for me. Beyond a handful of lines (and less yesterday) it just doesn't seem that great. Or it gives me pages of javascript to show a date picker before I RTFM and found it's a single input tag to do that, because it's training data was lots of old and/or bad code and didn't do it that way.

This has been super annoying! I just tell it to make sure the artifact is updated and it usually fixes it, but it's annoying to have to notice/keep an eye on it.

Yes every 10 edits or so. Super annoying. It is limiting how often I bother using the tool

I have had the same problem with artifacts, and I had similar problems several months ago with Claude Desktop. I stopped using those features mostly and use Claude Code instead. I don't like CC's terminal interface, but it has been more reliable for me.

Quite regularly.

I instruct artifacts to not be used and then explicitly provide instruction to proceed with creation when ready.

I'm on the $200 / month account and its also slower than a few weeks ago. And struggling more and more.

I used to think of it as a decent sr dev working alongside me. Not it feels like an untrained intern that takes 4-5 shots to get things right. Hallucinated tables, columns, and HTML templates are its new favorite thing. And calling things "done" that aren't even half done and don't work in the slightest.

It's still pretty good on my side. I'm just paying for the pro version.

I use Claude Code at work via AWS bedrock, also personally subscribe to the $20/month Claude. Anecdotallt, Sonnet hasn't slowed down at all. ChatGPT 5 through enterprise plan, on the other hand, has noticeably slowed down or sometimes just not return anything.

I've run into similar issues too. Even small scripts or commands sometimes get throttled. It does not feel like a resource limit. It feels more like the system is just overly sensitive.

Same. My usage is via an internal corp gateway (Instacart), Sonnet 4. Used to be lighting fast, now getting regular slow downs or outright failures. Not seeing it with the various GPT models.

More people are working after labor day. Fridays and weekends are better, Wednesdays are the worst.

I see this quite a lot via Copilot using Claude. It'll just get stuck on a token for a while.

Can you still code without it?

I pay $100 a month and wouldn’t hesitate for a millisecond if I needed to pay the $200/mo plan if I hit rate limits.

It’s hard to overstate how much of a productivity shift Claude code has been for shipping major features in our app. And ours is an elixir app. It’s even better with React/NextJS.

I literally won’t be hitting any “I need to hire another programmer to handle this workload” limits any time soon.

It looks like the $3 plan is only a promo price for the 1st month and it's actually $6/mo, or am I missing something?

https://z.ai/payment?productIds=product-6caada

How are you using it with Claude code?

Hi, I believe my current Claude subscription is going to waste. Can I ask what 3$ plan are you referring to?

> Because, strangely enough, that's pretty much my definition of AGI.

"It's life jim, but not as we know it" -Bones, probably.

I've seen some hokey definitions, but a 3 expression inductance clause is pretty low bar. On that score, your REPL and my compiler are AGI.

I can sell you AGI for $100k

Yes, I do something similar... However it breaks when the tables get too long. For <100 to few 100s of items it works.

What is inaccessible about it? It's kind of hard to discuss without any particulars.

Curious what a11y issues you see with Claude? I use it a remarkable amount and haven't found any showstoppers. Web interface and Claude Code.

Anthropic are looking to make money. They need to make absolutely absurd amounts of money to afford the R&D expenses they've already incurred. Features get prioritized based on how much money they might make. Unless forced to by regulation (or maybe social pressure on the executives, but that really only comes from their same class instead of the general public these days) smaller groups of customers get served last. There aren't that many blind people, so there's not very much profit incentive to serve blind people. Unless they're actually violating the ADA or another law or regulation, and can't bribe the regulators for less than the cost of fines or fixing the issue, I'd not expect any improvement.

I don’t think any serious programmer feels threatened by vibe coders

At most it’s just a maintenance issue. A junior dev or plucky marketing team member might produce something that makes it to production and the senior devs might have to probe it to do more things

Yeah copilot and cursor have no problem doing file manip afaik - creation, deletion, rename

When the word processor was first invented, people didn't end up printing less because of how easy it was to edit and view documents live — they printed more because of how little friction there was (compared to a typewriter) between making a change and pressing print.

I think we're going to see the same thing with document creation. Could LLMs help make a small number of high quality documents? Yes, with some coaching and planning from the user. But instead people will use them to quickly create a crappy document, get feedback that it's crappy, and then immediately create an only slightly less crappy doc.

10x as much useless work, guaranteed. Remind me in ten years :)

The global economy has been down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass into the land of the red queen as far as I’ve known.

“Now here you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place” as she says.

I fully believe any slack this creates will get gobbled up in competition in a few years.

I guess it will decrease the need for custom software. If this is reliable, excel will be "enough" for longer.

Finance?

Not official, but I have been using this nix flake to get Claude desktop on Linux: https://github.com/k3d3/claude-desktop-linux-flake

Yes.

Maybe they are switching you to a cheaper to run model after 7am ET time.

Opus' ability should be the feature being optimized and stabilized, fewer features are needed.

Yeah in agent mode it compiles code and runs tests, if anything breaks it attempts to fix. Kinda wild to see at first.

You can tell it to install uv. I just ran this:

  Run "pip install uv" then run
  "uv tool install sqlite-utils"
  then "sqlite-utils --version"

I imagine they still default to pip because there's more training data about it, and it works fine.

Yeah & I always expect the archive to be malformed but so far so good

I bet you could easily get an LLM to write a python script that would do that for you.

In the video? It shows that it's an XLSX file, but they used the option to load it into Google Sheets. If you download it, it appears it'd be an XLSX.

It created an XLSX file, but the user selected the Google Drive button to open it there. If you're talking about the video.

Yes, but that final claude is much further away than people think. So for a while, enhancing human productivity seems like a benefit

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.)

Have you run into the bug where claude acts as if it updated the artifact, but it didn’t? You can see the changes in real time, but then suddenly it’s all deleted character by character as if the backspace was held down, you’re left with the previous version, but claude carries on as if everything is fine. If you point it out, it will acknowledge this, try again, and… same thing. The only reliable fix I’ve seen is to ask it to generate a new artifact with that content and the updates. Talk about wasting tokens, and no refunds, no support, you’re on your own entirely. It’s unclear how they can seriously talk about releasing this feature when there are fundamental issues with their existing artifact creation and editing abilities.

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.

Some of this has gotta be people asking more of it than they did before, and some has gotta be people who happened to use it for things it's good at to begin with and are now asking it things it's bad at (not necessarily harder things, just harder for the model).

However there have been some bugs causing performance degradation acknowledged by Anthropic as well (and fixed) and so I would guess there's a good amount of real degradation still if people are still seeing issues.

I've seen a lot of people switching to codex cli, and yesterday I did too, for now my 200/mo goes to OpenAI. It's quite good and I recommend it.

The same experience here: Claude with the pro plan over the summer was really doing a good job. The last 4 weeks? Constant slow-downs or API errors, more halucinating then before, and many mistakes. It appears to me that they are throttling to handle loads that they can't actually handle.

I wonder if their API model is different from the subscription model. People called me crazy saying how GitHub copilot is better than Clause code but since I started using Claude code these past 3 weeks, times and times again, copilot + Claude sonnet 4 is better

> "The model is getting worse" has been rumored so often, by now, shouldn't there be some trusted group(s) continually testing the models so we have evidence beyond anecdote?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45097263#45098202

Time to revisit the infamous "3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code" statement. I wonder how the team is doing and what % of code is being written by AI at Athropic.

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent-...

Normally, I'd say yeah right, but I've been kind of feeling this too...and the thing is, we can't really know what they are running. It would be nice to have a private eval metric to monitor these things over time.

Agreed! It’s been horrible recently, feels like a completely different model under the hood. Before I could use it as a real sparring partner for architecture designs and decisions and I actually would learn in the process. Now it’s like it’s sycophancy is tuned to the max, it just agrees with me, does the bare minimum and produces code that doesn’t compile. For that I have the humans, ah!

Their iOS app could use some serious love. Not only does it have no offline capabilities (you can't even read your previous chats), if you're using the app and go offline, it puts up a big “connection lost; retry” alert and won't let you interact with the app until you get internet again. That means if you're mid prompt, you're blocked from editing further, and if you're reading a response, you have to wait until you get cell service again to continue reading.

It's one thing to not cache things for offline use, but it's quite another to intentionally unload items currently in use just because the internet connection dropped!

Maybe the people who build features like these are not the same people who buy cards and build data centers?

Maybe the reliability problems have almost nothing to do with what features they build, and are bottlenecked for completely different reasons.

I did not notice a degradation in quality last weeks. Not saying it is perfect, but the quality is similar (using Sonet) for the last month.

Using only 2 MCP servers and not extending claude.md.

I haven't actually noticed a marked decrease in intelligence but things like style, tone and sycophancy all suffer a lot recently

I knew it wasn't just me when it started using the phrase "chef's kiss" a few weeks ago.

This kind of behaviour is exactly why I avoided the competition and paid for Claude, but now I'm looking around.

Would anyone agree with my experience that OpenAI has the most robust and reliable LLM ecosystem atm? One week I really like Gemini 2.5 pro, the next I thought Claude was better, a few days I thought Grok 4 was pretty good (grok 4 is the most inconsistent "model"). But at the end, I default to OpenAI for overall consistency and reliability.

Agree. Even the web client itself is very buggy. I've almost completely stopped using anything Anthropic makes at this point. GPT-5 had a rocky start, but I think overall it's stellar, has the most features, and the client is very reliable for me.

They need to focus on fixing reliability first.

Maybe. What would you rather have?

A) rock solid Sonnet 4 with Sonnet 5, say, next April

B) buggy Sonnet 4 with Sonnet 5, say, next January

Seems like different customers would have a range of preferences.

This must be one of the questions facing the team at Anthropic: what proportion of effort should go towards quality vs. velocity?

What does it mean to quantise a model?

I have not noticed a degradation in Claude, but I feel that with Gemini 2.5 Pro.

That's not it! Direct engineering effort towards new features that will drive new customers and markets. Functionality is unimportant. Haven't you ever worked in enterprise software?

I'm kidding btw.

At least some transparency would be nice. It feels like they are serving less intelligent models labelled as more intelligent ones during peak times.

The web interface is also so laggy on Firefox I’ve started using other free offerings more despite paying for Claude..

The people shipping these features are not the same people who are fixing reliability probably.

Anthropic needs to continue burning cash and goodwill in hopes they extend the runway to IPO.

They do not seem to care at all that what they're peddling is just elaborate smoke and mirrors.

Yes. Last week sucked. We were thinking of sticking with them, but it seems they're shakier than I thought. With all that, and GPT5 just kicking Opus 4.1's butt in cost, reliability, and quality, I'm leaning OpenAI again.

Who knows how it will be next week.

I hit a limit this morning so fast and the quantization makes me think of different models.

Sonnet was nearly unusable without a perfect prompt and it took a separate therapy session with another sonnet chat to deconstruct how it was no lager working.

There appear to be hard overrides being introduced that overlook basic things like using your personal preferences.

Vague or general descriptions get weighed less important vs the strong and clear.

How much are you willing to pay for it? Maybe they just need a few billion more dollars to shovel into the furnace to keep the "AI" going faster.

Install claude code to do that: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code

nay. When you use claude long enough, you'd find yourself spending more time refactoring than coding lol

That's what thier CEO is saying

You mean mass employment?

With the amount of slop/trash LLMs produce so quickly, we are gonna need even devs coming out of retirement to fix the unmaintainable trash that's been created now!

Every 10k tokens vibe kiddies spend is another retiree developer summoned to fix their shit.

That doesn't make any sense and isn't an appropriate comment for this discussion.

The Anthropic product adding a feature is not the end of employment or even a step along the way.

MOST PEOPLE can't even use an actual computer yet even think about programming.

WYSIWYG editors didn't kill web development because most people are simply too stupid to understand a new tool, let alone use it.