This is the second one in a row now (previous was Anthropic flic in Feb/March)

It seems to be an inference engine or agent harness defect/misconfig rather. Not only do the issue details not evidence a willful stealth nerf, they actively suggest otherwise: the root cause is crude, and evidently not particularly stealthy (as it's being reported on by a regular user with independently verifiable, exact details).

I don't find "usual user psychosis" particularly fair or tasteful anyhow. You're not left with much more than subjective judgement and speculation/suspicion when all you have is a magic sink of an API endpoint that ingests your context window then spits back a continuation of it. Even if you have a standardized model test suite, claiming a stealth nerf remains an exercise in mind reading (of the people working there). Model quality can degrade without an explicit intention that way, or a downgrade of the underlying infrastructure, after all.

Being tongue-in-cheek conspiratorial, or even actually entertaining the possibility of a nerf, is no psychosis anyways. Not a fan of this trend of people abusing psychology diagnosis terminology like this. I'm sure there are people who go a step beyond and are overconfident in these judgements, maybe in their case it holds. But then that's a minority, and so what you have then is a hyperboly. Doesn't serve anyone.