One thing that these nerfing conspiracy theorists fail to realize is that Anthropic isn’t the only organization that directly serves Claude inference.

My company uses Claude models exclusively via Azure and AWS bedrock, which have their own licensed copies of the weights.

If all these people are so convinced Anthropic is nerfing models, have they tried other inference providers? Do they think the nerfing is coordinated across independent providers? Why wouldn’t any of these nerf-benches use these comparison points or even talk about them?

I think the most likely conclusion by far is that this is a psychological phenomenon.