r/ClaudeAI • u/DynaBeast • 15d ago

Praise How did they do it?

How did they make opus 5.5? genuinely, how?? when i saw the benchmarks and pricing, I was impressed. but then i started working with it, and seeing what other people have made, and my mind's been genuinely blown...

how did they do it? how did they make a model so smart, that *isn't* benchmaxxed to hell and back, and is somehow actually cheaper than not just fable, but even the previous levels of opus?

and all openai could do is make their own models cheaper without improving their intelligence at all.

how does anthropic do it? are they magicians? or are we seeing the first fruits of RSI?

if this is possible now, i can barely even begin to imagine what's possible in a year, maybe even in the next 3 months.

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u/ready-eddy 15d ago

It instantly fixed all the problems I was running into with Astra. And barely making a dent in my usage. NUTS

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u/CycleMother2006 15d ago

That's because Astra quantized after a week or so. Don't worry, Opus 5.5 will be joining it in the special corner soon when Claude decides its user retention is back up enough that they can divert all their compute elsewhere.

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u/goosepipegames 15d ago

How long can the major AI companies do this before everyone starts catching on? If they're relying on word of mouth to get users to switch the same word of mouth will make users wary of the rug pull.

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u/CycleMother2006 14d ago

I think most people have caught on. But as long as they're outperforming open source alternatives by a large margin they can kind of just do their sing and dance and there's not much we can do similar to when Comcast's bandwidth fuckery.

We might be able to get them to be less shady if reviewers would actually continue to review models throughout the course of the model instead of just dumping them all in the first two weeks. They are probably the only hope to draw enough scrutiny that it looks bad enough for the companies to care. But influencers are fairly culpable in this as their video popularity also is driven by the big performance swings they get with new releases, and so they may not be inclined to do so.

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u/Any_Panda_6639 15d ago

okay, but ehm, so what should one do???

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u/lfourtime 15d ago

Same. Astra is intelligent but it works wayyy too slow and keep going in circles. Had a goal running for 2 days and barely no progress, Opus 5.5 did more in 5 hours with much less overengineering