rcr-anti notes fewer tokens required for same results in Claude Code
1 Sep 21 12:45 PM · 5d ago · 2 articles · 1 post · 2 comments · 2 sources · development 1 of 6
A tracker of Claude Code performance disputes the degradation narrative, observing that newer versions require fewer tokens to achieve the same or better results, suggesting optimized prompt design and tool ergonomics rather than genuine capability loss.
“Less thinking as measured by tokens isn't necessarily bad if you can get the same results by making it think about the 'right' things or structure.”
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Obviously. The standard pattern is that model X is basically AGI and wins all benchmarks, followed the next day by Y and Z, which both win all benchmarks, too.Then weeks later people find out that they have been duped and complain that the models have been quantized or employ worse inference.Buy decent coffee instead of your $200 subscription and…
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I seem to recall Anthropic going on record saying that they don't do anything to model performance to stretch their compute capacity. I've anecdotally noticed massive peaks and troughs in performance week to week (albeit with Opus, not Fable).I wonder what their official explanation for this behavior is.
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