$5 jelly whale test pushes back on claims Claude Opus was nerfed

dean_rie · x · 2026-11-09

Amid claims that Claude Opus got nerfed, user vib3coded spent $5.03 having the model build a jelly sperm whale animation as a test.

The result stretched and rolled just as smoothly as before, suggesting Opus's capabilities remain intact for this kind of creative task.