HN users question sudden Opus 5.5 quality drop

A Hacker News user reported that Claude Opus 5.5 seemed markedly worse with poor attention span over about half a day, across agents on very different projects. Commenters cited daily benchmark results suggesting the model has not degraded, and compared it with Fable 5.1 on reasoning and style.

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