Tech··6 min
Why Opus 4.7 Felt Dumber, and What Anthropic Actually Fixed
For a month, builders kept saying Claude Opus 4.7 had gotten worse. Anthropic's postmortem says they were right. The twist is where the regression lived: three Claude Code harness changes, not the model weights. The API was never affected, and the evals never caught it.
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