Third post about this. The 64k output cap on Opus 4.6 is silently destroying code quality for everyone

This is my third post about this. Antigravity is capping Claude Opus 4.6 at 64k output tokens when the model natively supports 128k. This needs to be fixed now.

Here is what is actually happening and why most of you probably have not noticed. You give Opus a task, walk away, come back, and see it completed. Looks fine. But what you did not see is the model failing ten times in between. It generates its real response, hits “The model’s generation exceeded the maximum output token limit,” then tries a completely different approach. That fails too. It retries again and again until it finally strips everything down enough to fit under the cap. The code you got back is not what Opus intended to write. It is a compromised, squeezed down version of it.

Opus 4.6 was clearly trained to use its full 128k output. On nine out of ten tasks it blows past 64k on the first attempt. Every retry burns tokens you are paying for and the final output is degraded. You are effectively getting Sonnet 3.7 quality out of an Opus model because the platform will not let it finish its actual response.

If you have been shipping code with Antigravity in the last couple of days, go back and look at it. Seriously. The quality is not what you think it is.

If you are seeing this, post about it. This is not a niche problem, it affects every Opus user on the platform. The more visibility this gets the faster it gets fixed.

I got the same problem it’s driving me crazy.

Perhaps it’s only happening to users named Mohamad.

Use 1.22.2 version works immediately

I agree, this is really nonsensical, wasting tokens to let the model think for long time just to then see that “The model’s generation exceeded the maximum output token limit” is beyond braindead. It must be fixed because it’s literally burning people’s money for nothing. Unfortunately it’s not even the biggest issue.. Having to click “continue” 50x to get a single task done makes any other issue look small in comparison, but yea, this platform has many critical “burn people money for nothing” issues. I’d recommend to anyone to avoid subscribing until they completly fix all those problems.

What gets me is this problem existed in the previous version so I don’t understand how downgrading to version 1.22.2 will suddenly fix it?

Same here! Not 9 out of 10, but 1 out of 10 is enough. :melting_face:

Me too. It’s really frustrating. I use Antigravity for research and writing technical specifications and requirements. So it affects me a lot. In most cases, it reaches its output limit and consumes tokens/quota in an attempt to reduce output quality.