A months-old Anthropic bug report suggests Claude uses nucleus sampling, per unverified recall

menhguin · x · 2026-10-02

In a thread asking whether Claude uses nucleus sampling, user menhguin recalls that a months-old Anthropic infrastructure bug report attributed the issue partly to using nucleus sampling.

If accurate, this suggests Anthropic doesn't rely purely on deterministic/greedy decoding. The claim is from personal recollection and unverified.

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