Its incredibly easy to roll out a compute instance to X% of users, or route traffic between compute instances

so not everyone will have the same experience. If I was saving on costs that would be the easiest way to do it without deploying, without any nefarious intent. The persons in charge of that likely don't even know about how individual users are impacted

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olalonde 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

At what point does this become false advertising, or even fraud? Imagine paying AWS for a high-performance server, but 5% of customers who order one quietly get a slower, cheaper server and still pay the full price. That's a serious claim and makes me skeptical Anthropic is doing something like that without more evidence.

	▲	apt-apt-apt-apt 18 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think they could easily reduce several parameters to slightly reduce cost (something like "it's the same model, a few less passes, but quality is still 95%+"). Or switch to a faster, cheaper cache mechanism or something that's almost as good, but much cheaper to run, in the name of improving efficiency and keeping up with demand. This switch to cheaper mechanisms is what it feels like to me.
	▲	kuboble an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Actually, as a person who rented a dedicated server or two (not from aws) this exact thing happens quite often. For example a provider quietly underclocks your cpu or puts it is an energy saving plan hoping you won't notice.

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cft 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The degradation only happens to some accounts but not to all.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/s/64DXRERLyU

It would be nice to know how they select. I max out my $200 subscription every week and I was selected. On Saturday, the Opus on my account that happened to be supervising a running live process, became unusable.

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tmpz22 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It would be trivial for them to opt-out accounts that are doing benchmarking from a planned regression.

I really really really do not trust companies on the verge of IPOing from goosing their numbers. Even if the lawyers are up their ass, the social pressures are more than enough to compel the behavior. For every good person willing to do the right thing even at the cost of a delayed career progression, there are 20 people willing to do anything not even for a dollar but for an "atta boy!" from the boss.

	▲	cft 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's a major reason to use local models. Or open weights models on a trusted cloud provider. Even if they are way less capable, they're more predictable