Comment by kevin_thibedeau

11 days ago

Catastrophic error accumulation can produce more profound effects than noise.

Just to make sure I got this right. They serve millions of requests a day & somehow catastrophic error accumulation is what is causing the 10% degradation & no one at Anthropic is noticing it. Is that the theory?

  • FYI something in that region happened last august/September. Some inference bug triggered worse performance on TPUs vs GPU.