Claude has become noticeably, painfully worse at writing in the last six months. At this point it’s practically useless for anything except code.
Perhaps a one-trick pony is all we need.
Reverting to Opus 4.6 is much better than later models, though that is still full of annoying tics as well.
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I did notice after the fingerprinting update a marked uptake in strange language in responses. Specifically if I ask it to do something sometimes it will replace some of my request language with synonyms that don't actually make any sense. Like my request was fed through google translate twice