[nekusar]

Honestly, that sounds more like you triggered the hidden "guard rails" or realignment (aka corporate censorship), and you got downgraded.

Of course, you have no way to he absolutely sure, cause Anthropic lies about silent downgrades, and charges you as if they didnt. And the 'realignment' rules are kept hidden, so you can't even avoid them intentionally.

[skeledrew]

Yeah it's very possible I hit a rail, as one of the projects involves fully automating Claude Code to allow co-driving (similar to what mobile remote control offers, but other agents (eg. Pi) can also be in control, and vice versa). And yes it does seem as though the token burn is also higher, even though it eventually outputs something that works). I'm a patient person though, as long as the rails aren't too restrictive and the subscription value remains reasonable.

[nekusar]

Id recommend getting and running Qwen-3.5-35B-abliterated locally.

Having a local LLM is immensely helpful especially if you do the thing the companies disapprove of. Abliteration guarantees it wont refuse or censor.

The token dealers are incentivised in burning as much tokens as possible, and scamming by crippling/downgrading models. Their goal is to get you to pay more for each pull of the slot machine. And this slot (slop) machine doesn't have state/federal regulations for fairness.

[skeledrew]

Oh yes that reminds me, I have a few small local models including Qwen3.5. The tps rate is pretty bad for interactive use but I should definitely try it for my more automated workflows. I already use DeepSeek (via OR) alongside though and I doubt any Chinese provider will be restrictive in that way, so let Anthropic do what they may :).