Hot take, none of the models are getting "nerfed", people are just getting used to the new level of intelligence.

No, whether or not it's intentional, maybe can be debated. But there's definitely an experience of a model losing horsepower quickly after launch.

Yeh it's absurd that people claim this all the time. It's some crazy conspiracy theory and when you ask for examples nothing ever shows up.

It would be economical suicide from anthropic and OpenAI to actually need models intentionally.

But hey I guess it's hard with technology that truly seems like magic. People say if you'd bring electricity to the middle ages you'd be called a witch and burned. The same is happening to the model labs here because they are bringing tech that the world isn't ready for yet.

I was just wondering if, like certain processors, bugs get fixed and the speed goes down. Like, they find it's doing things it shouldn't, restrict it, and harm the throughput.

It's not a hot take at all. Every benchmark shows that.

Suuuuure...

Yeah people push the models to the limits of what they are capable of almost instantly.