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Re:Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels... by cyanydeez on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:17PM (#49402276)
Theyre training the system to minimize compute,so most likely theyre dynamically downgrading quants in the first few turns hoping to find the cheapest model to run. The side effect may be excessive token gen
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Re:Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels... by daishi55 on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:28PM (#49402391)
Sure. That’s possible. But that’s not what I was talking about.
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Re:Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels... by cyanydeez on Saturday August 22, 2026 @06:02PM (#49404304)
Tomato, technical tomato
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