Users report AI model quality collapse: skipped steps, blind edits and doom loops

JayJeds · reddit · 2026-10-11

A user reports that over the past week, models have been making careless mistakes on complex tasks: told to make surgical patches, the model jumps from step 1 to step 6 guessing the in-between, then admits the error, revises, and doom-loops on the same code. The author claims OpenAI's model performance fell off a cliff after Anthropic's Opus 5.5 release, with even the top-tier 'Astra' making sloppy mistakes.

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