[porphyra]

If your car slows down to 20mph you'd instantly know. If Claude silently switches to dumb mode, you might not even realize.

[DonsDiscountGas]

You'll notice by the crappy output assuming you're paying any attention at all

[8note]

we notice when anthropic thinks it's kept claude smart while degrading for capacity. we will definitely notice when they purposefully make it dumb