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Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by amelius on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:58AM (#50423444)
> It is very frustrating.

Not just frustrating, it can also be dangerous. What if you trust Claude with certain security-sensitive things (because experience), and suddenly you cannot trust it anymore like that?

Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by Phemist on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:12AM (#50423573)
It literally could have been rolled out in the middle of that brain surgery experiment on a mouse. Woops.
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by trvz on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:07AM (#50423982)
Anyone who chooses a cloud model instead of local for medical use has a damaged brain.
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by skywal_l on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:12AM (#50423577)
It seems to me the answer is in your question.
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by 4ggr0 on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:21AM (#50423650)
> What if you trust Claude with certain security-sensitive things

then $corp should remove your access to these security-sensitive things ;)

Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by pakitan on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:10AM (#50424009)
Maybe don't trust something with non-deterministic output for critical level security?
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by ACCount39 on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:26AM (#50424128)
Instructions unclear; revoked all human access.
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by wholinator2 on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:54AM (#50424361)
Right lol, i didn't know we'd built a machine that was capable of getting critical level security deterministically correct. That's not me, at least...
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by polishmijajca on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:30AM (#50424706)
*chaotic

It is deterministic, if we're being pedantic

Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by cyberclimb on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:50AM (#50424893)
It really though?? Even if you set temperature to 0 I saw research showing that the scheduling of the order of operations in the GPU firmware itself can change trailing decimals places and affect the output token
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by xeshuman on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:15AM (#50425961)
I'm aware operations can technically finish at different rates throughout all of a GPU's cores, but I am not exactly sure that GPU firmware would change the outcome of a calculation (unless there's something specifically in the firmware for it)
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by cyberclimb on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:37AM (#50426247)
I don't know a lot about it tbh so I probably mislabeled it as a firmware issue
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by pakitan on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:14AM (#50427558)
If we're being pedantic, it may be deterministic from the point of view of Anthropic. They can guarantee that my prompt X results in actual prompt X+Y (Y being all the settings they control), which would hopefully result in deterministic output Z. From my point of view, Y may as well be random, resulting in non-deterministic output Z for my input X.
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by thereader12 on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:19AM (#50427644)
Everything might be deterministic if we are being super-pedantic.
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by iterance on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:24AM (#50427727)
It is not deterministic.
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by criddell on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:37AM (#50424204)
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Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by mring33621 on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:09PM (#50431216)
And knowing is half the battle!
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by Azantys on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:10AM (#50424508)
You shouldnt do that in the first place
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by pythonaut_16 on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:08PM (#50432961)
This argument would be much more convincing if Anthropic wasn't constantly trying to sell everyone on the fact that you should.
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by losvedir on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:39AM (#50426276)
Then you should have evals.
Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by infamouscow on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:38PM (#50429627)
If you've outsourced your thinking to a cloud model, the cloud model is going to take your job soon enough. You won't need to worry about this for much longer :)