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#276 - Claude Code Failed: What Anthropic’s Postmortem Means for Developers

#276 - Claude Code Failed: What Anthropic’s Postmortem Means for Developers

Update: 2025-10-02

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Ever had your AI pair programmer stop helping and start breaking everything? I did—and this time, the data proves it wasn’t just me.

Claude fell off.

TypeScript that wouldn’t compile, migrations stuck in loops, refactors that went completely sideways. Turns out Anthropic’s own postmortem revealed three separate bugs causing degraded output—context routing issues, output corruption, and TLA-X blah blah blah error.

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#276 - Claude Code Failed: What Anthropic’s Postmortem Means for Developers

#276 - Claude Code Failed: What Anthropic’s Postmortem Means for Developers

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