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Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by jdcasale on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:29AM (#50422710)
I've been using Fable for a couple months as a relatively independent, long-horizon task executor and it worked well. About two weeks ago it completely stopped working. Like ~85% success rate down to ~10% in my workflows.

Totally possible that I'm just hallucinating/projecting/etc or my workflows somehow changes in terms of difficulty, but it's been kind of shocking.

Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by cromka on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:40AM (#50422796)
I have the same exact experience. Working on one project, brainstorming. It was brilliant in July and August, like a seriously smarter, more experienced version of myself, reading in my mind, one step ahead of me, when pointed out a mistake it would remedy on the spot with the exact brilliant solution.

Now it's like talking to my hungover self, after 3 days bender, who just wanted to be left alone.

Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by gitmagic on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:43AM (#50423796)
Same for me, especially the last couple of days. It was really frustrating and it felt like Claude was sick of working with me and just didn’t give a f*ck anymore
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by Roark66 on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:03AM (#50422990)
Same thing for me, but the day Fable got lobotomised Opus 5.5 started actually working pretty well for me.
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:39AM (#50424778)
I guess there are experimenting with they can enshittify. But even if they undo this current change, all commercials model will eventually be enshittified.
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by froh on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:11AM (#50425124)
what does "enshittify" mean in this context?
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by xeshuman on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:11AM (#50425883)
Distilled as much as possible
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by pennomi on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:13AM (#50425918)
Silently switch the model you are using to a worse one.