[penguinPhilosop]

Almost if this was _intentional_... maybe related to Anthropic still not being profitable and burning thru wads of cash every day.

[bentcorner]

The conspiracy theorist in me says that LLM providers do this regularly (or at least, don't bother optimizing for it) beyond some arbitrary "$/task" metric. I am not sure of there is enough SOTA model competition to avoid this.