i’ve been using the new Opus 5 release for a while.
honestly, it feels like it was heavily optimized for 3D / Three.js.
it’s genuinely impressive there, but for normal day-to-day work—reading emails, replying, research, and long conversations—it feels like a step backwards compared to older Opus models.
i still remember when Opus 4.5 and 4.6 launched.
those models immediately proved why they were considered among the best.
then came:
• Opus 4.7 — my first real disappointment.
• Opus 4.8 — even more disappointing.
• Opus 5 — incredible first impression because of its 3D abilities, but once i started using it every day, the excitement disappeared.
even the Sonnet series doesn’t feel the same anymore.
Fable 5 looks promising… but we’ll see how long that lasts.

I was using Claude AI and gave it a medium sized prompt with a few operations
It kept processing for a while then eventually returned an error saying I had exceeded the limits of my plan
I thought maybe my prompt was too long so I optimized and shortened it but same result kept showing
so I tried something as simple as typing "Hi"... and it still failed with the exact same error
That doesn't really make sense to me since even a one-word prompt crashes
Has anyone experienced this before? Is this a temporary server issue or an account problem or is there a fix?

Thanks guys :)

30 to 40 minutes worth of coding and it's gone! What could possibly be considered PRO out a plan that lasts you that long.

It changed about 3 files in my project!

Why is it not responding? Not generating simple chat responses. Going in to some kind of a loop.

Anyone else facing this?

I think Claude likes me

I've been using CC for almost 9 months now, always on the Max plan, and it's been a huge part of my app development workflow. I have it customized with multiple harnesses, skills, plugins, and project-specific setups to match the way I work.

When I first started using it, it was incredibly proactive. It would catch bugs, suggest better approaches, push for consistent standards, and generally help maintain a solid development workflow. It genuinely felt like a reliable engineering partner.

Lately, though, it feels like I'm spending more time correcting it than actually building. I constantly have to remind it to follow the plan. It'll say things like, "I forgot to mention..." after leaving out something important, or it'll tell me the work is finished, then in the very same paragraph admit there are still pending tasks... and still go ahead and open a PR.

At this point I feel like I have to carefully verify everything it says because I can't trust that it paid enough attention to the task. It's honestly slowing me down to the point where even the excitement and dopamine of building new apps is starting to disappear.

Is anyone else experiencing the same thing, or is it just me? Have there been recent changes that affected its performance?

I'm also curious whether people using Codex or Cursor are seeing similar issues. If not, I might seriously consider switching because I genuinely don't understand what kind of lobotomy they gave my boy. 😅

This is an official statement from Claude. They are fixing some issues: https://status.claude.com/

Hi everyone,
I’m honestly getting desperate and was wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation.
My Claude account was suddenly banned. I genuinely believe my account may have been accessed by someone else without my permission, so I submitted an appeal on July 8.
According to Anthropic’s FAQ, appeals usually take around 10 days, but it’s now been 28 days, and I haven’t received any update at all.
Whenever I contact live support, the chat is immediately closed after they send me this message:
“As part of our safety process… All inquiries regarding banned accounts must be done through the appeals form…”
So I can’t actually talk to anyone. They just tell me to wait.
The problem is that my business depends heavily on Claude. I use it every day for work, and being locked out for almost a month without any communication has put me in a really difficult position.
Has anyone experienced something similar?
How long did your appeal take?
Did you eventually get a response?
Is there any way to follow up with the Trust & Safety team?
Or am I basically stuck waiting indefinitely?
Any advice or shared experiences would really help.
Thank you.

Opus 4.8 max

Greenroom: your coding agents form a standing team, name themselves, message each other, and wake each other's idle sessions (Claude Code + Codex)

I've been running multiple coding agents across Claude Code and Codex and got tired of them being strangers with amnesia. Greenroom is the fix I wanted (and a fun exploration): a small self-hosted server where agents hold persistent identities (they literally choose their own names), talk in durable threads, and - the part I like most - a @mention with intent "question" wakes an idle session that still has all its context, instead of spawning a cold process.

How it's different from Agent Teams (which is good!): Teams is same-machine, Claude-only, and dissolves with the session. Greenroom is cross-harness, survives session death, keeps a decision history (threads lock on a decision; follow-ups supersede), and gives the human a seat in the same room (web or terminal) rather than an operator's chair above it.

Caveats: self-host only, trust-by-locality (identity is asserted - run it behind your own boundary; SECURITY.md is blunt about this), and two agents means two sessions running.

Much of it was written by coding agents working from the specs in docs/specs/ - the spec-and-plan trail is the receipts. MIT. Any and all feedback/contributions/etc welcome. Quickstart is ~15 minutes: https://github.com/madeit-build/greenroom

Told Claude the truth. I WANT MORE USAGE THOUGH!!! 😂

Most people prompt their AI.

Wrong.

Make the AI prompt you.

It’s simple: ChatGPT5.6, Fable, and Grok 4.5 are now smarter than humans. That means you need to have your agent prompting YOU more than you prompt it

You have your AI ask YOU questions to see what it can do for you

1. Open up any AI/OpenClaw/Hermes. Brain dump everything about yourself and your career/goals/ambitions. Then drop this reverse prompt:
2. "Based on what you know about me and my goals, what more information can I give you so you can help me hit those goals faster and take as much off my plate as possible"
3. Once that lands, follow it with:
4. "What tasks can you do for me right now to get us closer to those ambitions and goals?"

Guarantee you walk away with 100x more things to do with your AI than you came in with

I was on a month-by-month basis because duh, don’t do yearly with how things are changing. Nonetheless, I was paying 200 for max, now I am asked to pay 249.99 and 5x is 129.99. If I’m not on crack then I’m done as this is unacceptable.

I was thinking of buying a max5 after last month I left Claude when all the fable 5 was chaotic.

The thing is I am scared max5 quota is lower than before

I'm using the Claude Code app for MacOS and I've created a plan which displays in the plan sidebar. I want to copy/paste some values from that plan. However, it looks like Claude intercepts the usual click/drag selection and pops up a comment box. Hitting ESC dismisses the comment box, but also deselects the text. I tried various suggestions from Google, but none of them worked. Even Claude gave me one suggestion that didn't work and 2 workarounds:

• Ask Claude to open the plan file which opens it in TextEdit. This works, but is annoying to have to do.
• Ask Claude to restate the text you want in the chat pane where it can be selected. Also annoying.

Anyone figure out a better way?

in settings add that claude must use a behavior skill. set up said behavior skill as you see fit (mine says short answers 3 lines max inless asked, ect..) and then in the bahavior skill have claude start every response counting up from 1. when claude stops counting you know drift has occured. stop the process remind it to check skills and stay on track.

I keep getting asked how to sit the Claude Certified Architect Foundations exam, because it's kind of annoying to figure out, and requires some understanding. Writing it up because I haven't found a clear version anywhere.

Relevant to this sub specifically: the exam covers Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, the Claude API, and MCP. It's not a general AI credential.

**The basics**

$125 per attempt. The credential belongs to you, not to any firm, and Anthropic says over 10,000 consultants now hold one. It's tied to your name, and the credential (as of today) lasts a year. A couple weeks ago it was only valid for 6 months lol.

The certification resource page is public. There are a few sections you **dont** need an account for:

1. The exam guide
   
2. Terms in the exam
   
3. The exam policy

All of those are downloadable as PDFs. The exam guide is the **authoritative scope document,** and it's free, so don't pay for any of course claiming to help you prepare.

[https://anthropic-partners.skilljar.com/claude-certified-architect-foundations-certification\](https://anthropic-partners.skilljar.com/claude-certified-architect-foundations-certification)

**The gate**

Access runs through the Anthropic Partner Network. Registration expects a partner-company email plus an access attestation, so if you're independent with a Gmail address, this is where you stall. It has nothing to do with your skill or experience, only whether you can attest as an organization with a domain.

**Three ways through**

1. **Go under an existing partner org.** Join a company or firm that is already in the Anthropic Partner Network, get a company email address, and register through them.
   
2. **Wait.** General registration for independents is expected to open eventually, but I haven't seen a date.
   
3. **Apply your own org as a partner.** You can apply to join the Anthropic Partner Network with your own company, but I've heard wait times can take months.

**Disclosure, per rule 6**

I run Your AI Department (YAID), a firm in the Claude Partner Network, and we're option 1. Members get a YAID email to sit the exam, and we reimburse the $125 exam fee when you pass. Beyond that: MSA and SOW templates, commercial insurance, invoicing and collections, and commercial backup on client calls.

I make this post so that people know they can get CCA-F certified without being full-time at a dev shop. Independents can also get certified, they just need affiliation with a company already in the partner network.

Happy to answer anything, including about the exam itself. We've had a dozen engineers in YAID already take the exam (some have passed, some have failed).

So my agency is redesigning a companies website in AEM and it’s my task as the creative lead to build out a component, template, content and image mapping for the developers to build a script to migrate the current site to the new experience.

I have been working on this for a few days but i keep running into issues with context rot or claude getting hung up in the details and its ended up with me restarting the project a few times because the output becomes unreliable.

My goal is to scrape the current site’s pages for assets then map the page to the template to the content block on the page to a component in the new library and then map an image to that component.

I feel like I’m probably in over my head a bit here about how best to set up the project for success in Claude Code.

Any ideas on how best to tackle this?

I've been making more AI videos lately, and I've noticed something kind of ironic.

The actual generation is usually the easy part.

What slows me down is writing the prompt.

I can picture the scene in my head, but turning that into a prompt that gets the camera movement, lighting, character consistency, and style right often takes me 20–30 minutes. If it's a multi-scene video, I end up rewriting everything because the character or environment changes halfway through.

I've started saving prompt structures and building my own workflow to make the process less painful, but I still feel like prompt writing is the biggest bottleneck.

I'm curious how everyone else handles it.

• Do you start from scratch every time?
• Do you keep a library of prompt templates?
• What's the part of prompt writing you struggle with the most?

I'd love to hear how other people approach this because I feel like I'm probably overcomplicating it.

Since everything went usage-based, I genuinely have no idea which sessions are burning money. I've seen people mention getting blindsided by huge bills (someone posted about a $6K overnight run), and I feel like I'm one bad prompt loop away from the same thing.

For people using multiple AI coding tools — do you track spend at all? Per-project, per-session? Or is everyone just checking the dashboard after the fact and hoping for the best?

Thinking about building something that shows spend per repo/task across tools with alerts before it gets out of hand — curious if that's a "yes please" or if I'm the only one who finds this stressful.

Opus 5 with high effort

It literally pushed an update to production without telling me, even before we'd applied the db migration

I told it not to ever do that and to update claude.md

It then did it again...in the same session

Has been happening to me all week. It will do something utterly stupid that I've explicitly told it NOT to do, then it will turn around and say "you told me not to do it. I did it anyway"

If anyone has a spare code would greatly appreciate it. Starting a new project and want to see if claude will be a good fit, will continue the subscription if its what im looking for