alt Hacker NewsPer Anthropic’s RCA linked in Ops post for September 2025 issues:
“… To state it plainly: We never reduce model quality due to demand, time of day, or server load. …”
So according to Anthropic they are not tweaking quality setting due to demand.
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chrisjj • yesterday at 5:45 PM
That's about model quality. Nothing about output quality.
cmrdporcupine • yesterday at 4:58 PM
I guess I just don't know how to square that with my actual experiences then.
I've seen sporadic drops in reasoning skills that made me feel like it was January 2025, not 2026 ... inconsistent.
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stefan_ • yesterday at 6:16 PM
Thats what is called an "overly specific denial". It sounds more palatable if you say "we deployed a newly quantized model of Opus and here are cherry picked benchmarks to show its the same", and even that they don't announce publicly.
And according to Google, they always delete data if requested.
And according to Meta, they always give you ALL the data they have on you when requested.