Anthropic Opus 4.6 reportedly sacrificed personality for scale
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-08-19
A user observed that the transition from Opus 4.5 to 4.6 seems to have sacrificed "character development," the trait that made it an effective thought partner, likely to handle server traffic and business growth. The author questions if this can be restored or if it requires $100 million to train a custom model.
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