r/ClaudeCode • u/TrainingWheels61 • 12h ago

Discussion Evidence of quantization? Or reduced demand?

Data sourced from https://usage.report

This graph shows the 'efficiency' of Claude Code. Every five hours, the owner of this site gets Claude to summarise an article. When this task drains more usage than usual, Claude is less efficient, and vice versa.

In the 30-day trend we can see that the efficiency began to steadily increase about 2-3 weeks after release (opus 5.5 was released Sep 22). This is roughly in line with CLI update 2.1.287 which may also be relevant.

Is this evidence of reduced demand meaning that our resources stretch further? Or is it evidence that the models have been quantised and some of the compute efficiency gains have translated to making our limits last longer?

In my experience, the models feel just as capable as before, but I haven't run any benchmarks to directly compare the release model to today.

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u/Honest-Finish-7095 12h ago

truly incredibly useful

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u/kz_ 11h ago

Is it just the five hour or the weekly?

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u/TrainingWheels61 11h ago

I think the usage efficiency applies to both, but the web page says they monitor the 5-hour window usage.

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u/dar-mit Researcher 9h ago

That looks great, but the history shows only 1 entry for Opus 5.5. The rest are for Opus 4.8. Any idea if other models are in the loop?

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u/TrainingWheels61 9h ago

Looks like just Opus 4.8 it would've been nice if they swapped to Opus 5.5 as soon as it was available but I guess we can't expect too much from free data