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Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by overflowy on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:49AM (#50422877)
My paranoia tells me they A/B test users which means consistent benchmarks go through the high performance pipeline while regular requests fall back to the quantized / experimental / low cost version. I can see the main reason being the oldest one in the book, which is making more money.
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by musha68k on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:57AM (#50422942)
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Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by eithed on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:08AM (#50423040)
It's not paranoia and would align with https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xr9x5y/the_ner...

I wonder as well whether would this pop up on nerfbench

Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by kasey_junk on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:50AM (#50424318)
Do you ever a/b test them? Run the same setup and prompt multiple times to see the output?