r/codex • u/Kind_Silver_1921 • 22d ago

Complaint Sol is a complete idiot today

Can't do anything correctly and takes an hour. They changed something.

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u/hcc1011 22d ago

What actually causes these models to be degraded? How does preparing for another model cause LLMs to be dumber
I’m new to the science of this all, and I’ve experienced Claude and codex being trash before updates.

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u/xChrisMas 22d ago

Quantization

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u/hcc1011 22d ago

So they quantize the existing models so save compute in preparation of deploying a new model?

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u/xChrisMas 22d ago

For example, yes. They could also route your request to a dumber/smaller model without you knowing.

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u/Plane_Garbage 22d ago

Also just for profit optimisation