alt Hacker NewsOpus 5 in xhigh can't do basic math as well. They dumbed it down to a point where I just cancelled my subscription yesterday. I used to be a $200 subscriber, dropped to $20 after the fable shenanigans, and use it only when I have no usage left with Codex.
/on The prose is load-bearing unbearable — every sentence feels like it was engineered to sound profound rather than to be read.
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I have a theory about this, what if we all became dumber after 4 months of heavy AI usage?
I remember how I enjoyed agents between December and February, something started changing around March.
I thought models are getting dumber, but benchmarks were convincing opposite, initially I thought maybe they're quantizing models for day to day use, but Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 seems worse models than Opus 4.6
The decision to leave is genuinely yours.
Yes same also cancelled my subscription, poor quality and slow.
Don’t $200 and $20 levels steer you to effectively different models?
the way it talks is insufferable
it really angers me every day
I've been using Opus 5 to write a fractal renderer in GLSL today, with pretty good results (better than I could do on my own anyway). It definitely can do basic maths.