Dev says Opus 5.5 now feels sloppy and needs hand-holding like every other LLM
audrow · x · 2026-10-13
Developer audrow reports that Opus 5.5 initially felt special but now seems like other LLMs: somewhat sloppy and needing hand-holding. He asks whether the model got worse, his standards changed, or he's missing something — a typical first-hand data point in the recurring 'model degradation vs expectation drift' debate.
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