It's not just you (Claude did get dumber)

Anthropic's Claude models experienced significant quality degradation and reliability issues over several months, with multiple bugs affecting model intelligence going unnoticed and unacknowledged for extended periods. The company's lack of transparency, poor infrastructure reliability, and prioritization of research over user experience has created trust issues. Alternative providers like Google Vertex and AWS Bedrock offer better uptime for Claude models, and services like OpenRouter provide failover capabilities to avoid single-provider dependency.