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Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

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  1. nico · · focus · HN ↗
    Anecdata: I've been running a long-lived claude code session with Opus 4.6 for the last few days. Yesterday, almost right after the Sonnet 5.5 announcement, codex starting asking for permission to run things a lot more often

    The quality of the output/work seems the same, but the speed at which it gets stuff done is a lot slower, because it's asking for permission so much more

    I don't have any numbers/stats, just my impression. However, I imagine that if Anthropic could make the models ask for permission more often, it could be an interesting way to throttle access, without degrading quality of the output

    1. jacquesm · · focus · HN ↗
      ChatGPT tends to modulate the speed at which you can type. If it is a bug they probably should have fixed this months ago, so I'm guessing it is intentional.
      1. layla5alive · · focus · HN ↗
        Yes across all devices (mobile, PC, etc.). If it's a performance issue then it's one of those "happy accidents" that is a bug in their favor. Either they don't care about quality or they really like money more than quality, but no reason it can't be both.
      2. dannyw · · focus · HN ↗
        Super long chats are slow and sluggish too at least on chatgpt/claude.ai; even on a semi beefy machine.

        I’m sure it’s lowkey intentional, probably encourages users to spin up new chats; hence less context.

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