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For the past two to three weeks I've noticed Claude just consistently lagging or potentially even being throttled for pretty minor coding or CLI tasks. It'll basically stop showing any progress for at least a couple minutes. Sometimes exiting the query and re-trying gets it to work but other times it keeps happening. I pay for Pro so I don't think it's just API rate limiting.

Would appreciate if that could be fixed but of course new features are more interesting for them to prioritize.

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I use Claude Code at work via AWS bedrock, also personally subscribe to the $20/month Claude. Anecdotallt, Sonnet hasn't slowed down at all. ChatGPT 5 through enterprise plan, on the other hand, has noticeably slowed down or sometimes just not return anything.

I've run into similar issues too. Even small scripts or commands sometimes get throttled. It does not feel like a resource limit. It feels more like the system is just overly sensitive.

> It does not feel like a resource limit.

As someone who keeps oddball hours, I can tell you that time of day will very much change your experience with Claude.

2am Sunday is nothing like 2pm on a Tuesday.

> feels more like the system is just overly sensitive.

Somebody call the cyber psychologist! (Cychologist?)

Same. My usage is via an internal corp gateway (Instacart), Sonnet 4. Used to be lighting fast, now getting regular slow downs or outright failures. Not seeing it with the various GPT models.

More people are working after labor day. Fridays and weekends are better, Wednesdays are the worst.

I see this quite a lot via Copilot using Claude. It'll just get stuck on a token for a while.

Can you still code without it?

I'm not sure how saying it won't even run CLI commands has anything to do with my ability to code with or without it.

I don't know what the question implied but generally speaking it is a known effect that making AI do the things you used to do accumulates cognitive debt which seems intuitively true too. Physical exercise is a good analogy perhaps.

In this case it's relatively simple things like figuring out the correct ffmpeg command to pull frames from a video, which is then documented in the CLAUDE file. Granted, I don't understand the underpinnings of LLMs but I would've understood that things documented in the CLAUDE file help it reduce cognitive complexity and "remember" more easily something relatively simple like that example.

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