Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3

Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by monkeydust on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:38PM (#50429632)

It's kind of crazy they can do this without informing customers. Essentially we like many other knowledge working companies are slowly outsourcing intelligence to a 3rd party that can, at will it seems, alter that intelligence without informing us. Just means we have to invest more in harnesses, guardrails and keep active in open model space.

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Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by youngprogrammer on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:20PM (#50430321)

Google isn't informing customers everytime it updates its algorithm

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Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by abustamam on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:19PM (#50431382)

1. Two things can suck independently at the same time. One thing sucking is not a justification for another thing sucking.

2. Google doesn't pretend that its algorithm has certain capabilities while serving the user a nerfed version

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Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by radlad on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:01PM (#50432879)

I think (2) is the important one. Anthropic provides benchmarks with their model releases. If they are making changes that make models perform worse on advertised benchmarks, how can this be legal?

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Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by tortasaur on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:46PM (#50433391)

In fact, people accepting that the new thing can suck is why newer things suck more. That's how the frog boils.

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Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by pydry on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:04PM (#50431137)

caveat emptor

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Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by Y_Y on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:05PM (#50432924)

But like, you wouldn't say that about other services where we trust the provider out of necessity, like engineering or pharma.

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Re:Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 by SpicyLemonZest on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:50PM (#50433436)

Seems to me that imposing reputational consequences on supply shenanigans is one of the key ways that an emptor may cavere.

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