They test it on launch day, then benchmark it against that. A deviation of above 10% is considered a change. They're currently tracking Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.
This bench famously detected a degradation of Opus 4.6 which Anthropic later blogged about. I personally think people sense nerfs more often than they happen and that it's often about honeymoon effects.
Anthropic A/Bs my weekly quota amount. So I have an automated prompt that runs at 3 AM with a transcription task, I measure input and output tokens, and weekly/5 hour quota before and after. The absolute token counts stay within 0.1% while in mode A it counts for 1% of my 5 hour quota and mode B 4% of my 5 hour quota.
How did pissing off your customers ever become a business model?
I can't imagine sticking with a supplier that plays games like that with me. Tokens are a pretty vague quantity to begin with (you don't control how many tokens a model puts out in response) and giving a couple of purposefully wrong responses will happily inflate your bill, but you don't care because eventually it worked. It's almost an ideal vehicle to scam people.
Imagine the power company being able to decide how much you consume and at which price point.
Banks and health insurance are much more consumer friendly outside of the US, usually because of regulation. Turns out you can just tell banks “make transfers cheap and essentially instant” and they’ll do it, rather the bullshit they have in the US.
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They test it on launch day, then benchmark it against that. A deviation of above 10% is considered a change. They're currently tracking Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.
This bench famously detected a degradation of Opus 4.6 which Anthropic later blogged about. I personally think people sense nerfs more often than they happen and that it's often about honeymoon effects.
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I can't imagine sticking with a supplier that plays games like that with me. Tokens are a pretty vague quantity to begin with (you don't control how many tokens a model puts out in response) and giving a couple of purposefully wrong responses will happily inflate your bill, but you don't care because eventually it worked. It's almost an ideal vehicle to scam people.
Imagine the power company being able to decide how much you consume and at which price point.
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Airlines, banks, health insurance…
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