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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by atq2119 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:58PM (#48312868)
Unless you're systematically repeating the exact same task, the most parsimonious explanation is that you're seeing natural variation based on different tasks, random sampling of tokens, etc.
Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by osigurdson on Thursday May 28, 2026 @07:12PM (#48316835)
I don't think this explains the phenomenon as is more temporal in nature - not prompt to prompt. I'm sure the AI labs gracefully degrade to simpler models when resources are low - why wouldn't they?