To back up that observation:

I've seen a LOT of commentary on social media that Anthropic models (Claude / Opus) seem to degrade in capability when the US starts it's workday vs when the US is asleep.

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TkTech a day ago | parent [-]

And on the flip side, the status page literally says:

> Importantly, we never intentionally degrade model quality as a result of demand or other factors, and the issues mentioned above stem from unrelated bugs.

	▲	Liquix a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		keyword: intentionally the statement is carefully worded to avoid the true issue: an influx of traffic resulting in service quality unintentionally degrading
	▲	flutas a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I wasn't trying to say they intentionally do it. I was trying to say that systemic issues (such as load capacity) seem to degrade the models in US working hours and has been noticed by a non-zero number of users (myself included).