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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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