Users accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance of Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code; employees publicly deny the company degrades models to manage capacity (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Users accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance of Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code; employees publicly deny the company degrades models to manage capacity — A growing number of developers and AI power users are taking to social media to accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance …