Two Opus 5.5 videos a week apart spark 'did Opus get nerfed' debate
Someone generated two videos with Opus 5.5 a week apart using the same project and settings and says the later one came out noticeably worse, reviving discussion of whether Opus was weakened.
Someone compared two videos made with Claude Opus 5.5 a week apart, using the same project and settings, and says one came out noticeably worse, reigniting the 'did Opus get nerfed' debate. → Both videos were made with Opus 5.5 on mid reasoning inside the same project → The only differences were the creation date and a few art assets → The post drew 519 upvotes and 157 comments on r/ClaudeAI → Livenerf, which re-tests Opus 5.5 daily on 78 hard questions, had detected no drop as of day 6 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wtzzm4/opus_55_comparison_to_last_week/