Anthropic published a postmortem addressing reports of degraded Claude Code performance. Three independent bugs were identified and fixed: a March 4 reasoning-effort change (reverted April 7), a March 26 session idle optimization bug (fixed April 10), and an April 16 verbosity instruction (fixed April 23). All resolved by v2.1.116 with API/inference unaffected.
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An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Anthropic debugged and fixed three independent Claude Code quality regressions (March 4 reasoning-effort change, March 26 session idling bug, April 16 verbosity instruction) by v2.1.116, leaving API/inference unaffected.
Thursday, April 23, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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