alt Hacker NewsIf Anthropic indeed nerfed Opus 5.5 on November 3, it could be because they wanted to be prepared for inference cost going up due to the data center moratoriums and the election results. I really hope this is false, but I don't see how inference cost can go down in the near future.
1) it was certain for a long time before the election that the unwholesome party is going to get slaughtered
2) the wholesome party is not in power yet
3) even when they are, the orange man will veto everything they might attempt to do
4) even when the orange man is replaced with someone wholesome, and that wholesome person enacts a bunch of wholesome legislations, data centers will simply move literally anywhere else on Earth.