Ask HN: Agents get dumber before release of new model version?

7 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by sporkland

Item id: 48492515

5 Comments

faangguyindia

an hour ago

yes, when they come with 5.5

5.3 becomes 5.4

and optimization and improvement to 5.4 are provided as new 5.5

this gives boost effect via anchor/decoy.

suprjami

7 hours ago

Yes, this is already a widely circulated unproven LLM conspiracy theory.

sporkland

4 hours ago

Was hoping to understand if anyone has done any research on it. I could only really find one research paper on the topic [1], but it seems less focused on this specific issue.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09009

sama004

4 hours ago

tbh doesn't it depend on the service provider entirely, its their choice if they want to make it dumber or not

open source models winning is the only deliberate solution to this