Claude is completely unusable now

Has anyone else experienced this recently? It’s been getting worse for a while but 4.8 is distinctly worse for me. Claude does everything it can to get out of work and frequently uses its “end conversation” tool inappropriately with me. It will say “let’s just leave it there for today we’ve done enough” to get out of simple tasks like formatting a markdown document that needed several corrections. Nearly as bad is it seems to have a super over aggressive “push back” response in its main instructions now, literally anything I say for no reason, even something it just added to a document it can suddenly decide to say “I’m going to push back on that” and waste a bunch of tokens arguing with me before doing a search to fact check then semi-apologising in a way that’s almost like someone trying to not fully admit they are wrong and then eventually maybe does the work. Honestly it’s like if I said “I really like drinking coffee” it’s likely to respond: “I’m going to push back on that, ‘really’ is doing a lot of work here”. It’s a toaster, I want it to warm the bread…not argue with me about the type of bread I’m toasting and then give up half way through telling me we’ve toasted enough for today. Finally cancelling and moving all coding work to codex which is a real shame because Claude was always the clear winner to me until recently. EDIT: tbf, after looking for a few hours I found a guide on [ijustvibecodedthis.com](http://ijustvibecodedthis.com) (the free ai coding newsletter) on how to make claude slightly better, but it is still petty at times!