Claude Opus 4.8

Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by S-E-P on Thursday May 28, 2026 @07:18PM (#48316887)

I haven't had the best experience with 4.7 and it felt like a substantial debuff. I've even ended up moving a lot of review to codex just because 4.7 was so dense.. Here's to hoping they figured it out since I'm not entirely sure but I would have to guess that they were experimenting with making the model lighter (although I have no concrete evidence of this).

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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by thesmart on Thursday May 28, 2026 @07:28PM (#48316972)

Rolling back to 4.6 is such a stark difference

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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by dbgrman on Thursday May 28, 2026 @07:54PM (#48317182)

in a good way or bad way? in my experience going back to 4.6 was a breath of fresh air again. Opus 4.7 for some reason was "suffocating". Too obnoxious, tried too hard to impress and used exxagerated/pompous language.

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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by pqdbr on Thursday May 28, 2026 @08:09PM (#48317289)

This. So much jargon, so much made-up-words-with-hyphens, so much abbreviations. The mental tax to understand it is enormous.

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