"Opus 5.5 never made mistakes at launch" is nonsense, argues Redditor pushing back on nerf claims
japt77 · reddit · 2026-10-02
Pushing back on the recurring "Opus 5.5 got nerfed" discourse, this Redditor argues the premise is flawed: the model introduced bugs in his use cases from day one, because bugs are inherent to software development—missed requirements, incomplete logic, unforeseen edge cases. Judging coding models by one-shotting prompts is, in his view, absurd; developers should instead write feature tests and measure outputs against them. He also stresses user error: prompting quality, CLAUDE.md coverage, and one's own understanding of the problem. He sees no meaningful performance change and concludes AI is making people lazy and entitled, especially on hobby projects.
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