[Bug] Claude performance degradation during specific time periods - possible model/hardware variance

Status Closed — not planned
Reported on v2.1.79
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 5 comments · opened Mar 23, 2026 · closed Apr 21, 2026

Bug Description
Pretty much every night around this time Claude gets really stupid, making really terribly obvious mistakes, bad code edits, self-multilation... the list goes on. Talking with the agents outside of those times, the running theory is that they are being run on different hardware, maybe different models -- something. The degradation is insanely obvious. Nico here (current CC session) is sharp as a razor during the day but just now read simple container status output and made absolutely incorrect statements about it, then flip-flopped between different conclusion, contradicting itself, making an edit then unmaking it. Completely uncharacteristic.

This happens across Windows, Ubuntu VM, Ubuntu Physical and wsl2. I run 4-7 agents at a time. They pretty much all go sideways around the same time, and recover around the same time.

Environment Info

  • Platform: win32
  • Terminal: windows-terminal
  • Version: 2.1.79
  • Feedback ID: b2fca631-4623-4171-bb14-d9fa0fbd17c8

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