Anthropic API Performance Degradation: Reduced Contextual Understanding

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Aug 6, 2025 by acoliver Closed Aug 15, 2025

Bug Description
Today claude opus 4.1 is realllly not operating at its usual game. You were asking 1 2 3 4 on how well it is doing. I have a task I run frequently. The context is roughly always the same. It is screwing up really obvious things I don't usually have to explain beyond the md file. So yes...we are noticing whatever experiment you're running that is making it dumber.

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: Apple_Terminal
  • Version: 1.0.69
  • Feedback ID: 97cece2f-e889-4817-8f66-d0750f6dc1ae

Errors

[{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n    at BS.makeRequest (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1279:3840)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)\n    at runNextTicks (node:internal/process/task_queues:69:3)\n    at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:540:9)","timestamp":"2025-08-05T22:11:05.053Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n    at BS.makeRequest (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1279:3652)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)","timestamp":"2025-08-06T01:29:16.396Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n    at BS.makeRequest (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1279:3840)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)\n    at runNextTicks (node:internal/process/task_queues:69:3)\n    at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:540:9)","timestamp":"2025-08-06T01:30:47.977Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n    at rZ1._createMessage (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1270:7955)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)\n    at runNextTicks (node:internal/process/task_queues:69:3)\n    at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:540:9)","timestamp":"2025-08-06T01:31:30.306Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n    at BS.makeRequest (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1279:3840)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)","timestamp":"2025-08-06T01:47:51.769Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n    at rZ1._createMessage (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1270:7955)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)","timestamp":"2025-08-06T01:48:54.199Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n    at rZ1._createMessage (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1270:7955)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)","timestamp":"2025-08-06T13:41:16.670Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n    at rZ1._createMessage (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1270:7955)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)","timestamp":"2025-08-06T16:02:30.797Z"}]

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