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Power users report a shipped model feeling degraded as compute is rationed

development2026-04-16

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Anthropic is preparing Claude Opus 4.7 for release even as power users complain that Opus 4.6 and Claude Code feel degraded, less reliable and more token-hungry than weeks earlier, a predictable symptom of compute being rationed toward the next frontier.

Reporting date: 2026-04-16 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to April 16, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to April 16, 2026

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Anthropic

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Renting a GPU for an hour gets 48% more expensive in two months

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Power users report a shipped model feeling degraded as compute is rationed
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-04-16
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-16-users-notice-the-rationing
Claim: Anthropic is preparing Claude Opus 4.7 for release even as power users complain that Opus 4.6 and Claude Code feel degraded, less reliable and more token-hungry than weeks earlier, a predictable symptom of compute being rationed toward the next frontier.
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- Welcome to April 16, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-16-2026
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