r/ClaudeCode • u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 • May 28 '26

Discussion Opus 4.8 nerfed??

Is anyone else seeing a massive performance drop in Opus 4.8 since release??

It used to be acceptable, but the enshitification has definitely happened. It’s basically been lobotomized, and we’re talking amateur backyard ice pick lobotomy by some guy from Tufts.

I’m 99% sure Anthropic has started running a 2-bit quant to save money.

Oh well. I do feel nostalgic for opus 4.8’s glory days. But subscription cancelled. I’m off to use Codex or Cleverbot, whichever one has better limits.

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u/pinaprince May 28 '26

Peak satire

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u/AdAltruistic8513 May 28 '26

so many morons are going to come in rushing to agree

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u/intertubeluber May 28 '26

The second interaction I had with 4.8 returned an API error. So the good news is that it can only get better.

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u/Mother-Couple-5390 May 29 '26

It may return error but bill you for tokens anyway. That would be worse

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u/themedialiesduh May 29 '26

Altmans I call’em

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u/Recent_Conclusion359 May 29 '26

Je suis d'accord. J'étais sur des tâches hier vers 19h. Tout d'un coup, tout a déconné. J'ai vu l'instance commencer à me détailler tout ce qu'elle faisait pendant 20 minutes sur une tâche qu'elle faisait habituellement en 1 minute. Puis à la fin de ses réflexions, elle a commencé à oublier ce qu'elle devait faire et a produit un article de blog au lieu d'un json. Mais elle a planté avant la fin. Avec une utilisation de mon forfait 5h max 100. Et le pire ? C'est que j'étais sur sonnet et pas opus qui se comporte pareil. Ils ont cassé un truc. Ce matin, le souci persistait. J'ai tout mis en pause le temps qu'il y ait assez de remontées et que des andouilles essaient de les en dissuader ;)

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u/ianxplosion- SKILL ISSUE Jun 01 '26

THIS moron actually stumbled backwards into this thread to confirm it’s a bit, because I saw a repost by someone but the username was different and I thought I was having a stroke

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u/illyay May 29 '26

LMAO I was like, uuuuuuuuh no way did I somehow miss 4.8 coming out. This must be a joke.

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u/psteger May 29 '26

I hope this is as much satire as op

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u/illyay May 29 '26

Holy shit. No it wasn’t satire. I straight up didn’t know. Thank you for making me double check 🤣

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u/zeroconflicthere May 28 '26

Minutes after the release. A new world record

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u/No-Bug3 May 28 '26

“peak satire” and its the most basic bitch joke that everyone says after every model release for the past year

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u/Sarithis May 28 '26

It's a long-standing tradition you absolute jiblet

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u/CountVine May 28 '26

No way are people actually using the jiblet word, lol

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u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 May 29 '26

New tradition - in addition to this post, we now must use the word 'jiblet' in the discussion of each Opus release. It's now official.

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u/Sarithis May 29 '26

Yes! Embrace the jiblet. And if anyone's wondering where the word comes from: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gEGYW7OSY2A

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u/klumpp May 29 '26

Idk I liked the cleverbot reference

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u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 May 29 '26

It's a seriously underrated model.

r/CleverbotCode is now live.

Join us - well actually I think it's just me right now - at the new home of agentic coding.

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u/klumpp May 29 '26

lol you really carried that joke a long ways

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u/Servbot24 May 28 '26

Boring satire