Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3
by vadansky on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:58PM
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Same. I'm doing something security related right now and I swear it was smarter than this before. Right now it keeps pushing me to just allow all connections, or leave a password in plain text, or other insane suggestions. Maybe placebo, maybe bad timing though, but it feels ridiculous.
Opus 5.5 was significantly crushing every task I gave it for quite some time.
Suddenly, it starts making the type of mistakes that even Sol 5.6 would not make. It became noticeably worse than Astra.
I've grown so completely tired of the labs changing the quality of the model out from under our feet that I CANNOT wait until there's viable alternatives at the frontier level.
I will gladly forgo the best available power for consistency - and I see that coming soon (hopefully with Qwen 4 or shortly after).
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is not even remotely in the same league as an un-nerfed Astra or Opus 5.5 - despite what microbenchmarks may claim.
It's a great model, especially for the cost - but there's a huge difference.