User calls Opus 5.5 biggest jump since 4.6, fears launch-then-distill downgrade
haider1 · x · 2026-09-23
User haider1 reports Opus 5.5 is the biggest improvement he's noticed since 4.6: much faster, needs fewer iterations, and communicates far better — Opus 5's biggest weakness. His worry: Anthropic habitually launches models at very high quantization settings, then distills them over time, making them dumber. (Unverified claims.)
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