Reddit user claims Claude Opus 5.5 secretly dumbed down, self-reported effort at 15
Training-Flan8762 · reddit · 2026-11-02
A Reddit user reports Opus 5.5 on high effort felt significantly dumber all day across Claude app, Claude Code and iPhone, losing badly to competing models. When asked, the model self-reported its reasoning effort was set to only 15. The author suspects Anthropic is silently downgrading effort for paying subscribers, echoing the alleged secret downgrade in August. Unverified user-side claim.
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