alt Hacker NewsThis seems anecdotal but with extra words. I'm fairly sure this is just the "wow this is so much better than the previous-gen model" effect wearing off.
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rishabhaiover • last Monday at 4:23 PM
Nope, there is a categorical degradation in quality of output, especially with medium to high effort thinking tasks.
rzmmm • last Monday at 4:29 PM
I suspect you might be right but I don't really know. Wouldn't these proposed regressions be trivial to confirm with benchmarks?
I've always been a believer in the "post honey-moon new model phase" being a thing, but if you look at their analysis of how often the postEdit hooks fire + how Anthropic has started obfuscating thinking blocks, it seems fishy and not just vibes