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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by spaceman_2020 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @03:06PM (#48313886)
I think 4.7 was an awful model in actual use. I never got anything out of it and it was frustratingly weird. This feels more like an attempt to course correct and isn't a real bump
Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by throwaway63467 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @03:10PM (#48313923)
I think they overtrained on scientific papers or such as it would spout really sophisticated sounding nonsense with a ton of complicated verbs and adjectives. 4.6 was definitely better in that regard. The more I use these tools the more I think they’re not actually that revolutionary. I mean it’s still amazing what they can do but they have very clear limitations it seems.
Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by spaceman_2020 on Friday May 29, 2026 @07:50AM (#48321947)
it was also astonishingly lazy. Would just ask me to write test scripts. I asked it to create simple UI buttons for testing some basic functions so I could share it with a client, and it gave me curl commands instead - and then defended it by saying that the UI is wasted work

Frustrating because if I have a tool, I expect a tool to do what I tell it to do. Tools shouldn't have any opinions on how they should be used