Why Every Frontier Model Gets Worse After Launch — The Regression Trap
The r/ClaudeCode thread hit 1,700 upvotes in 48 hours. Developers called it “Gaslightus 4.7” — a model that invents files, defends hallucinated results across ten turns, and exhausts your Pro plan after a dozen heavy prompts. GPT-5.5 shipped seven days later with nearly identical complaints. This isn’t a bug. It’s a structural pattern baked into how frontier labs ship. Continue reading the full article on WowHow → Originally published at https://wowhow.cloud/blogs/frontier-model-regression-pattern-gaslightus-opus-4-7-gpt-5-5-2026