Guides · field notes
Why does Claude feel dumb, and what to do about it
The questions people type into a search box at 2 a.m., answered with Anthropic’s own postmortems and documentation instead of vibes. The vibes are on the home page.
is claude dumb today
Is Claude dumb today?
The live answer, how to read the score, and a 60-second checklist before you blame the model.
4 min · reviewed Read
why is claude so dumb
Why does Claude seem dumb?
Nine documented reasons a model that did not change can still feel dumber today, each with a fix.
8 min · reviewed Read
is claude nerfed
Is Claude nerfed?
The written record: two postmortems, two denials, and a checklist for telling an incident from a bad day.
7 min · reviewed Read
claude code getting worse
Is Claude Code getting worse?
Symptom-to-cause table for the CLI, the April 2026 timeline, and the slash commands that fix most of it.
7 min · reviewed Read
is claude down
Is Claude down?
The official status page first, then the community vibe check for the outages that never show up there.
4 min · reviewed Read
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