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Anthropic just released Opus 4.8 and it has had a mixed response. So let's talk about where it excels and where you might want to continue using Opus 4.6. 4.8 was built on top of 4.7, and that's where a lot of the criticism seems to stem from. If you don't...
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Anthropic just released Opus 4.8 and it has had a mixed response. So let's talk about where it excels and where you might want to continue using Opus 4.6. 4.8 was built on top of 4.7, and that's where a lot of the criticism seems to stem from. If you don't know, 4.7 also had a mixed response. Many people, our agency included, have continued using 4.6 for most work. That's because 4.7 has been overly sterile, takes everything literally instead of applying common sense judgment, and tends to use a lot more tokens. Opus 4.8 is getting a lot of those same criticisms, but it's also really impressive in some areas. Anthropic only released the benchmarks where it's performing very well, but it does perform well on the benchmarks. Notably, it's the most honest and least lazy model currently. They specifically designed it to be effective on long running tasks. And so far, that seems like where
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Anthropic just released Opus 4.8 and it has had a mixed response. So let's talk about where it excels and where you might want to continue using Opus 4.6. 4.8 was built on top of 4.7, and that's where a lot of the criticism seems to stem from. If you don't know, 4.7 also had a mixed response. Many people, our agency included, have continued using 4.6 for most work. That's because 4.7 has been overly sterile, takes everything literally instead of applying common sense judgment, and tends to use a lot more tokens....
d from the desktop app. But hopefully Anthropic notice the response from the community and decide to keep it around for now. 4.8 is also not going to be the smartest model for very long. In that same post, Anthropic announced that a new class of model will be coming out in the coming weeks. And of course we know this to be the methods class. And of course we can expect methods to be incredibly good at coding. And also incredibly expensive. It seems like Anthropic is currently all in on creating the most powerful...