Claude Opus 4.8

Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by Bnjoroge on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:29PM (#48312424)

For long-running tasks, yes 4.7 has been a noticeable improvement. Goes off the rails alot less than 4.6 does. For shorter-sized windows, I havent felt as much and agree that the harness improvements have been fhe biggest lever

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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by csvance on Thursday May 28, 2026 @03:12PM (#48313953)

When doing big long running workflows especially with plan Mode 4.7 was a clear improvement. It’s considerably worse for under specified tasks and responds to a couple sentences with 10+ paragraphs for explanatory type discussions.

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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by themgt on Thursday May 28, 2026 @03:22PM (#48314102)

Opus 4.7+ Max is a 10x engineer who wants to be left alone to work. When you talk to him, he infodumps on you to get you (his pointy haired idiot Dilbert boss) to go away.

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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by 4gotunameagain on Friday May 29, 2026 @01:17AM (#48319352)

OR they deliberately increased token usage to inflate pre IPO numbers.

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