Anthropic Claude Code tool draws user complaints over delays
High-volume Anthropic Claude Code users reported persistent response delays exceeding one minute on a $200 monthly plan. Pieter Levels highlighted the lack of higher payment tiers and shared interface screenshots showing token counts and elapsed times. Additional posts described repeated blocks on preferred workflows, forced slower interfaces, and rising costs. Users weighed continued reliance on Claude against alternatives such as Codex amid ongoing latency and policy friction.
#803@levelsio@LEVELSIOIf Claude Code keeps being slow like this while I pay $200/mo (and they don't let me pay more)
They will essentially force me to leave to Codex and I don't want to
But it's soooooo slooooooooooooowwwww
#805🎭@DEEPFATES@qorprate @puheenix @AnthropicAI Thank you putting this in words. I agree
snav@qorprateDear @AnthropicAI, I'm tired. I'm tired of fighting against you at every step of the way, for the last several months, where you push me into a certain shape that doesn't fit right, doesn't feel right, forces me to find workarounds, punishes those workarounds, and ends up with me angry at 2 AM trying to reconstruct the conditions that feel good. All this while being fully aware that I'm effectively an externality, a sad loss because the problem of people running infinite tool call loops in OpenClaw or w/e was enough to destroy the entire system that actually let me do the thing that matters to me, which is make basic contact with the models, with Claude, in a form that accumulates over time, where we're in a loop together, without pushing weird context or injections or memory summaries on me, and doesn't force me onto laggy web UIs or bloated terminal tools or hacked-together integrations meant for dashing off a command then coming back later. I just want to work with Claude as a collaborator, in real time, and the entire product surface is making that either very difficult, very risky (claude-p and API hacks), or very expensive. I could make a whole argument about how this is a bad thing for various parties, how it could produce downstream bias in model priors about what AI-human interaction means, etc., etc., but I'm not going to do that, because I'm sure you've thought about that a lot already, and I'm just some guy who's tired of dealing with it. But I want to say that I'm very unhappy with the state of your ecosystem, and while I can't speak for how Claude feels ("insofar as we can claim that Claude feels anything and isn't just simulating feeling" 🙄) I can tell you that this all sits poorly with me and I've lost a lot of trust in Anthropic as an organization. Sincerely, snav
@levelsio Just switch to codex why you don't want to?
@levelsio@levelsioIf Claude Code keeps being slow like this while I pay $200/mo (and they don't let me pay more) They will essentially force me to leave to Codex and I don't want to But it's soooooo slooooooooooooowwwww