Is it just me, or has Claude Opus gotten worse recently?

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Is it just me, or has Claude Opus gotten worse recently?.

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Since the recent updates, I have the feeling that Claude Opus is becoming dumber on complex tasks.Things that used to work cleanly in a single prompt now fail completely.

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It starts arguing based on stale comments, fails to update documentation when code changes, and edits based on blind guesswork instead of actually verifying the codebase first.I even caught myself using Fable for tasks that I always used Opus for in the past, just to get decent results.It feels like Anthropic is shifting their technical problems onto paying users.

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Either they are using strict safety filters that silently fall back to cheaper models without telling us, or they are downgrading the compute under heavy load to save money.The result is the same kind of shrinkflation: we pay the same subscription price, but we either burn way more Opus tokens on endless retries,...

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