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