The endless model-hopper cycle: Claude's success overloads servers, users drift back to GPT
haider1 · x · 2026-09-29
haider1 describes a repeating cycle in AI: Anthropic ships a strong model, everyone jumps to Claude, servers get overloaded and usage limits/quality degrade; OpenAI, with more spare compute, offers better limits and users move back to GPT—until the same pressure hits them too. Rinse and repeat.
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