Decline in Copilot functionality (Certain Models)

[realityengine]

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Whatever has been done in the past week has lobotomized Claude Opus 4.6. It burns credits and spends time over analyzing with no actual progress. It often gets stuck and stalls the whole process. I often have issues where i type a prompt that it completely disregards and decides to work on something from the previous prompt instead. Its wild how all these errors are happening more and more as my subscription runs on yet there is no refund for burned credits wasted on something that clearly isnt functioning as intended.

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[EH-MLS]

+1. I’m seeing the exact same "stale agent" issue with Opus failing to complete tasks. Yesterday, it was constantly throwing timeouts. Today, it seems like a band-aid was applied so it just finalizes the task at the last second with zero progress.

Honestly, it feels deliberate—like a nasty workaround to force us to burn through our Premium Requests on a broken service without throwing an explicit error. We shouldn't be losing our quota on this.

[EH-MLS]

+1. I’m seeing the exact same "stale agent" issue with Opus failing to complete tasks. Yesterday, it was constantly throwing timeouts. Today, it seems like a band-aid was applied so it just finalizes the task at the last second with zero progress.

Honestly, it feels deliberate—like a nasty workaround to force us to burn through our Premium Requests on a broken service without throwing an explicit error. We shouldn't be losing our quota on this.

[EH-MLS]

Worse still, while the throttling used to cause flat-out timeouts, GitHub's alleged 'fix' is a joke. Now, the system just stalls and manages to spit out a completion right before the timeout limit hits—barely making any real progress. Meanwhile, Sonnet runs circles around it, doing way more in less time. This janky workaround is probably because Copilot is struggling with per-token costs, but to the user, it just exposes how unreliable the tool is and how GitHub is failing to deliver.

[Bhavesh1116]

Hey! The issues you're describing (over-analyzing, stalling, ignoring prompts) actually align with documented infrastructure incidents on Anthropic's end from late March — there were elevated errors and timeouts on Opus 4.6 from March 26–31 that could cause exactly this behavior.
The good news: those incidents are now resolved per status.claude.com.
For burned credits, I'd suggest reaching out to GitHub Copilot support directly and citing the March 26–31 Opus 4.6 incident window — that's your best shot at getting compensated since the outage is officially documented.