Performance degraded once On-Demand Kicked in

Yeee_Yeee
Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:40:06 +0000
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I used up all of my API usage (Ultra) and once on-demand kicked in there was an immediate drop in quality outputs and the context windows would rapidly fill up from doing what appears to useless tool calling… and nothing ever seems to get done correctly any longer. I am normally on Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5 and burnt by API limit in about 8 days so the drop in usefulness was dramatic and noticeable.

Opus spent ~$15 just thinking about how to not solve a problem and almost hit the context window in a couple minutes… Same with GPT 5.5… that is not what my experience had been while I still had API left.

Has anyone else notice a dramatic performance dropoff one it was on-demand?

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