Dev Claims Opus 5.5 Was Nerfed: Model Names Are a Trick, Only Margins Are Real
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-07
A developer argues Claude Opus 5.5 "seems to have been nerfed" and that builders shipping software with LLMs are in an abusive relationship with a super intelligence. He claims model names are a magic trick — providers can quantize on demand based on server load and call it whatever they want — and that only margins and unit costs really exist, funneling the industry toward enshittification at the flip of a switch. He plans to run his first local experiment with a Raspberry Pi and a GPU.
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