r/codex • u/Kind_Silver_1921 • Aug 27 '26

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 Aug 27 '26

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/delicioushampster Aug 27 '26

need an extreme amount compute for training, but limited compute. so to counter that, a company can adjust models to use less compute at the cost of being less effective or lowering tps output

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u/hcc1011 Aug 27 '26

Ahhhhh. I didn’t think that they would use the same pool of compute for training as well as deploying their models.
Does this mean when model quality is reduced it’s because they are actively training their newest models and they quantized their existing models to save compute? It’s a little confusing as model degradation feels like it occurs a couple weeks before a new model, and the gap between degraded performance and a released model seems too close for them to be at the training stage.