Developers complain Opus 5.5 feels 'dumber', echoes emerge in the community

sidjustice_ · x · 2026-10-24

A user asked Anthropic's lydiahallie on X: "is it just me or is Opus 5.5 dumber," drawing agreement from others. It's community pushback on the new model's behavior; no official response or systematic eval backs the claim yet.

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