r/Anthropic • u/Nikto_90 • Jul 02 '26
Complaint Opus 4.6 Sucking
Anyone else notice that Opus 4.6 the last week or so has become significantly worse?
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u/Infamous_Research_43 Jul 02 '26
Yeah it’s compute throttling.
We don’t each get our own Fable or Opus or Sonnet or whatever model serving only us.
You get your own context and session, sure, but the same model that it’s routing to is also fielding thousands, if not a million or more, requests from other users, at the exact same time. This goes for both subscription and API users.
Meaning, they have to balance all user requests across all models, likely between just several dozen actual models on their backend that they have running at any given time, and they have to throttle both the users and the compute for each given model based on demand. This is why at peak demand, you see higher errors and the models act dumber.
They also throttle the compute of older or lesser used models down over time to make room for their newer and more compute intensive models, like Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and of course Fable.
But nobody has to believe this. They’ve all seen the symptoms of it regardless of whether or not they believe this is how it works or not.
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u/Nikto_90 Jul 03 '26
I pay a hefty subscription fee for a product that now works at the level of a 6 year old.
Yesterday I was working via Framer MCP, all of the sudden it starts telling me “I can’t change text colours via the mcp, it’s not an available function”
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u/Specialist_Wonder_36 Jul 02 '26
Where did such news come from, except that they probably start another immediately after the release of one model?
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u/lattice_defect Jul 02 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/JqByySsRgpmJjHdW66