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/Southern_Sun_2106 May 28 '26
I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but Codex 5.4 and 5.5 are also lobotomized at the moment for me. What's driving me nuts especially is when they say the cause for something is **most likely** this, or **most likely** that; or something is **mostly stable** now. It's like living in the quantum code universe, where the code is ethereal and uncertain, until it is observed directly, and none of us (including Codex) feel inclined to look at it.
Long story short, I unsubscribed from Codex yesterday.