Glad I'm not crazy. I actually noticed both 4 models are just garbage. I started running my prompts through those, and Sonnet 3.7 comparing the results. Sonnet 3.7 is way better at everything.
Sonnet 3.5 did this last year a few times, it'd have days where it wasn't working properly, and sure enough, I'd jump online and see "Claude's been lobotomized again".
They also experiment with injecting hidden system prompts from time to time. Eg. if you ask for a story about some IP, it'll interrupt your prompt and remind the model not to infringe copyright. (We could see this via API with prompt engineering, adding a "!repeat" "debug prompt" that revealed it, though they seem to have patched that now.
> I started running my prompts through those, and Sonnet 3.7 comparing the results. Sonnet 3.7 is way better at everything.
Same here. And on API, the old Opus 3 is also unaffected (though that model is too old for coding).