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Jev catches the Opus 5.5 effort drop
The default effort moved from high to medium, and agents without settings lost reasoning.
Open x.com ↗OPUS 5.5 IS MAKING YOUR AGENT DUMBER RIGHT NOW AND IT WILL NEVER TELL YOU. JEV CAUGHT IT.
The default effort on Opus 5.5 dropped from high to medium. If your agent never set effort explicitly, it is now reasoning at a lower setting than the one you tested it on. No error, no

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