Has Opus 5 gotten significantly slower for anyone else recently?
I’ve been a Claude Pro user since day one and have been using Opus 5 heavily for my consulting work especially creating PPTs, Excel files and Word docs. Until recently, it was fantastic. Even fairly substantial tasks would usually take a few minutes. Over the past few days, though, the exact same type of tasks are taking 10-25+ minutes , sometimes even for relatively small jobs. Nothing has changed on my end. This is becoming a real productivity issue for me. I rely on Claude heavily for work, and if this is the new normal, I’ll unfortunately have to start looking at alternatives. Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a Claude/Opus 5 issue, a recent backend change, or something I can fix on my end? Also, if it is a Claude-side issue, does anyone know whether Anthropic has acknowledged it or if there’s any indication it’ll be fixed soon? Would especially love to hear from people using Opus 5 for PPT/Excel/Word generation .