GitHub issue claims Opus 5.5 quality fell back to Opus 5 level
A single Claude Code GitHub issue on version 2.1.284 claims Opus 5.5 quality degraded to the level of Opus 5. It was labeled needs-info and has no Hacker News thread. Livenerf found no change in the same period.
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"the model quality has degraded back to level of opus 5"
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