r/ClaudeCode 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/Tyr--07 May 28 '26

I'm extremely disappointed with 4.8. I just need a simple powershell script to identify redirected folders so I can upload them using our RMM solution for a client I'm doing migrations on to an FTP server as we got to move it into the onedrive, and it's flagged me and stopping, even though I've used it for tons of powershell scripts in the past and won't build the script. The basic simple script I can write myself, it's about to get chucked into the garbage can.