Opus 4.7 Scores Lower Than Both 4.6 and 4.5 on SimpleBench — 332 Upvotes on r/singularity

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A SimpleBench benchmark comparison posted to r/singularity (332 upvotes, 65 comments) shows Claude Opus 4.7 scoring lower than both Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.5 on the common-sense reasoning benchmark curated by AI Explained. This adds quantitative evidence to the growing community perception that Opus 4.7 traded reasoning breadth for coding specialization — SWE-bench improved 7 points but other capabilities regressed.