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Claude Is Painful

A user on Hacker News harshly criticizes Anthropic's Claude AI assistant, calling it slow, antagonistic, and prone to wasting tokens with incomplete responses. The user contrasts Claude unfavorably with Google's Gemini and even a locally run open-source model, accusing Anthropic of prioritizing profits over utility.

read1 min views8 publishedJul 19, 2026

I cannot be the only person who feels this way. Claude is antogonistic and frankly an absolute nightmare to use. SLOW is an understatement... I get faster output from a 16GB mac mini using deepseek 8B model....and not much worse output...

I ask Gemini something. I get a response in 10 seconds and its long and well detailed. I ask claude, it wastes my tokens talking to itself, makes insulting stupid and frankly rude shortcuts that have no basis in reason except for Anthropics profits...

Its unuseable. It will just cough up a half complete reaponse, deciding to strip everything out of value...place nothing useful in, leave half finished files and then worst of all...it doesnt even putput them and leaves them in its own private memory...until you ask for them explocitly and it regenerates rhem again at full cost....its just pure fraud. No further notes. Thoughts?

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964237](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964237)

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