Anthropic faces user backlash over reported performance issues(fortune.com)

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Anthropic faces user backlash over reported performance issues

https://fortune.com/2026/04/14/anthropic-claude-performance-decline-user-complaints-backlash-lack-of-transparency-accusations-compute-crunch/

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sreekanth8503 mesi fa

The complaints appear to be connected to recent changes Anthropic quietly made to the way Claude operates, reducing the model’s default “effort” level in order to economize on the number of tokens, or units of data, the model processes in response to each request.