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Claude Code performance degradation and refusals

March 31, 2026Gergely Orosz, ben, claire vo

Gergely Orosz, ben, and claire vo report Claude Code getting worse, including new refusals for non-dev tasks and reduced proactiveness, with no transparency on what changed.

Claude Code is suddenly getting unusable for stuff you could use it before (as in a day before!)
the AI now refuses to so stuff that it doesn’t think is strictly to do with software development.
noticed major performance degradations in claude code last week
it does seem like claude code got a little dumber.
Feels a little less proactive.
Gergely Orosz
ben
claire vo
quality regressionrefusalsclaudeanthropicclaude code

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