@jeremyphoward: Did something happen to Opus 4.8 today? First time I've seen this happen (and I use it daily): it almost totally stoppe…
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Jeremy Howard reports that Anthropic's Opus 4.8 model suddenly stopped thinking and produced poor responses, while Opus 4.6 worked fine.
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Did something happen to Opus 4.8 today? First time I’ve seen this happen (and I use it daily): it almost totally stopped thinking, even at highest reasoning setting. And answered terribly.
I repeated same prompts with Opus 4.6, and it worked great.
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