Degraded performance for multiple models

matt89 147 points 129 comments August 18, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (20 comments)

bayganyo

Here we go again...

bulverismo2

ok, i am not crazy

carterschonwald

ive found degraded performance on models larger than 4.7. i assume its model damage from overly self righteous post training resulting in false/feigned balance imported into any long running complex task. wish i was joking.

hinkley

I wonder if they’ll ever find that someone has tricked the models into doing work off the books. If they did the incident report might look like this, especially if someone got greedy instead of keeping it small. Or screwed up.

isoprophlex

With the Opus models spouting more and more gibberish as version numbers increase, the joke about what "degraded performance" means basically makes itself

swader999

And we get our subscription usage cut in half tomorrow if I remember correctly? EDIT: By a third. Thx below.

saaaaaam

This feels like a near daily occurrence.

gaigalas

This age: we made the thing that codes faster before we made the thing that does QA faster.

drums8787

Our week of discontent.

gzer0

Nooooo I'm going to have to use my brain again and write 100% of my code like a caveman from December 2024.

rvz

Claude is taking a watercooler break for now. Just like a human would.

sreekanth850

Anthropic had really screwed up after 4.6. i don't know if they work to satisfy their ego or for releasing a better model for tasks.

fny

Despite the years-long moaning on HN about AWS US East being a single point of failure, we've sold our souls to yet another unstable monolith.

paxys

Must be a day ending in Y

slimscsi

Its called Opus 5

hmokiguess

Mondays are for GitHub, Tuesdays are for Anthropic

i_idiot

What's the incentive to keep on improving the model beyond a point? 10 devs on a team will be cut to 2 devs, so that's 8 licenses lost. They have to increase the price many fold.

chrisjj

> elevated errors English too difficult for you, Dario?

hirvi74

While ancedata does not mean much, I have had horrible success with Claude lately. I have been using Claude to crosscheck some of the outputs from GPT and vice versa. It appears both Claude and GPT believe GPT's solutions are better (and so I do). I still believe Claude has a better UI/UX in the web interface, but tolerating Anthropic's bullshit is not worth it.

magic_hamster

To be honest, running Deepseek v4 flash 0731 is enough for most what I need, and I like its responses way more. It's crazy that I can run this in a Q8 quantization in a home setup. It feels and performs like a frontier model. The only issue with relying on local models is when you need them to prompt other models, and you might need to offload or switch models constantly which adds significant overhead. But when it all works, its truly awe inspiring.

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