I was red-pilled by Claude Code over 4th… | justin․searls․co

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I was red-pilled by Claude Code over 4th of July weekend. Its performance was incredible. Ever since, it's been unbelievably incompetent by comparison.

Now the AI bros tell me Anthropic's servers get slammed during US business hours and Claude becomes 70% stupider. It's 4pm on a Friday and I only realized because Claude stopped fucking everything up. Great job, everyone.

3.0k likes · July 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM UTC

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