On: Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

[causal]

Oh man. Hadn't even considered the watermarking angle.

[Retr0id → causal]

The simpler angle is that more text lets them bill you more. I don't think that was necessarily their intent, but it does mean they have a negative incentive to fix it.

[StilesCrisis → Retr0id]

I would have assumed reasoning tokens dramatically outweigh user-visible output. It certainly seemed that way when they were visible!