LiveNerf repo tracks Opus 5.5 daily benchmarks to detect if Anthropic nerfs the model

TheOnlyVibemaster · reddit · 2026-09-28

To test community claims that Opus 5.5 has been quietly nerfed, a developer is re-running independent benchmarks like GPQA and SWE-bench daily and graphing results in an open repo called LiveNerf. So far, no nerf detected. The methodology uses Claude to pick questions Opus 5.5 struggles with most, with Opus 5 as a control; a deviation over 7.5 points would signal potential capability loss. Baseline expected by day 10, real judgments deferred until day 20 — a data-driven answer to whether the 'nerfed' discourse is hysteria.

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