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Claude Opus 4.8

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Re: Claude Opus 4.8

#791

Post by solenoid0937 »

datakan wrote: post #406
SimianSci wrote: post #28

There is an obvious shift in sentiment amongst users, at least here in the US. I feel it myself, even as a proponent of AI tools, the bloviating and language that these companies use in these release articles are starting to wear thin on my patience. Its possible we might just be witnessing a shift in fashion, where this type of sentimentality was more acceptable when it was novel and new, but now it just appears out…

Watch Christopher Olah bloviate at the Vatican during the Magnifica Humanatis launch. It's truly nauseating. I've never seen such a ridiculous speech in my life. Between him and the CEO, I'm starting to understand the level of arrogance these people are capable of.

Literally nothing in his speech was controversial though.

Re: Claude Opus 4.8

#792

Post by nullbio »

Still not worth the cost over GPT 5.5. Anthropic better start improving their speed+costs, or they're going to lose an incredible amount of business. And no, fast mode is not something any sane person will ever use. 6x the cost for 2.5x the speed, what a joke...

Re: Claude Opus 4.8

#793

Post by skolos »

senko wrote: post #385

My fav coding benchmark for frontier models is to build a simple RTS game in one file (js/html/css). Claude Code with Opus 4.8 in ultracode mode nailed it, the best result so far: https://bsky.app/profile/senko.net/post/3mmwnrkwboc2v The prompt was: Create a simple but functional real time strategy (RTS) game similar to old WarCraft, StarCraft or Command & Conquer games. The player should be able to build buildings,…

How many times did you try? Same model running multiple times can produce both very good and very bad results. In my benchmark even 10 runs often not enough to tell for sure if one model is better than another.

Re: Claude Opus 4.8

#794

Post by brunocvcunha »

nullbio wrote: post #792

Still not worth the cost over GPT 5.5. Anthropic better start improving their speed+costs, or they're going to lose an incredible amount of business. And no, fast mode is not something any sane person will ever use. 6x the cost for 2.5x the speed, what a joke...

It’s 2x the cost now

Re: Claude Opus 4.8

#796

Post by sMarsIntruder »

Opus 4.8 - High

> how many days in the week have the letter d in them?

> Two - Sunday and... wait, let me actually check. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. The ones with a "d": Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday all have one. Monday too. So that's Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday - four days.

Re: Claude Opus 4.8

#797

Post by taspeotis »

nickstinemates wrote: post #795

Rollout has been a little suspect. Hope it gets better.

I had a very bad start to it too, it lost track of where my source code was (in the repo! the current working directory!) and started grepping for .gitignore trying to get a foothold on where the git repo was.

And after that asked some questions that it already had answers to.

Started a brand new session and it's been OK since. Only drawn one silly conclusion so far, which I nudged it away from.

Re: Claude Opus 4.8

#798

Post by slashdave »

ishurand4 wrote: post #465
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I won't be surprised if the next gen frontier models are the last. There's orders of magnitude of low hanging juice to squeeze out of smaller models. It is almost guaranteed that a 60-90B model can outperform current SOTA in coding tasks within 2-3 years (design not certain, probably unlikely). It is far less clear that a 1.2T model will be meaningfully better enough to justify training it. As far as reasoning is con…

And anyway, with quantum, there will be no need for frontier companies as you might be able to even run a 1T param model on a consumer quantum computer.

What? No, that is not what quantum computers do

Re: Claude Opus 4.8

#800

Post by vbezhenar »

Finally I can make it think hard. This is feature I loved in ChatGPT (Pro Mode) and I missed in Claude for so long. Can cancel ChatGPT now, I guess.

Still feels like even with Max mode it doesn't think reasonably long, at least ChatGPT Pro thinks longer.

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