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Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

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  1. tomaskafka · · focus · HN ↗
    I feel strongly that nerfing of Opus 5.5 is done via usage counting - the first week I got an amazing pile of work done and was raving about its performance/price ratio - basically I wasn't able to deplete its 5h allowance (on high) if I was writing and checking the assignment, it took 6 days of sustained effort to bring the usage close to zero.

    This week I have done considerably less work, and 2 days in, 54 % of Max usage is gone.

    I hate this bait and switch cycle, and seeing how OpenAI cut its limits (5x raise from 0.1x api price to 0.5x api price for their max plan, so new $500 plan gets less usage than previous $200 plan) I think this will get worse still.

    1. hgo · · focus · HN ↗
      My experience is not the same. Opus 5.5 lets me work as much as I want and I can't deplete 20x.
      1. tomaskafka · · focus · HN ↗
        It seems that I forgot I downgraded Claude to Pro, as I bought $100 Codex plan to test Sol 6, so that one is on me, whoops :grimace emoji:
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