Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 on May 28. The benchmark tables got posted as usual — beats the previous...
Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 on May 28. The benchmark tables got posted as usual — beats the previous model on SWE-Bench Pro, and so on. Everyone screenshots those.
I got stuck on the small thing sitting next to the benchmarks: the effort dial.
And this post isn't an announcement, it's a question. Hence #discuss.
First, let's be clear about what changed
The concrete things that shipped with Opus 4.8:
Claude Opus 4.8: “a modest but tangible improvement”
Claude Opus 4.8 is here. Is it as good as they say?
Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new 'dynamic workflow' tool | TechCrunch
Claude Opus 4.8: The System Card
Claude Opus 4.8 is generally available for GitHub Copilot - GitHub Changelog
Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, with honesty as its killer feature
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8 with better coding and lower fast mode pricing
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic Opus 4.8: the AI Lab is Paying Attention to Customers
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. The benchmark numbers went up, as they always do. But that's...
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Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. Same price as Opus 4.7, fast mode at 2.5x speed, fast mode...
Watch now | 🎙️My first impressions of Opus 4.8—where it excels and where it falls short
The new Opus model comes with a tool called Dynamic Workflows, for coordinating swarms of subagents.
