Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 this week — three Opus versions in less than four months. Most coverage will benchmark the model. The buried story is what the release cadence does to teams running production agents: model migration is no longer a quarterly project, it is a monthly tax. Here is what to refactor before Opus 4.9 lands in late summer.

Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 this week — three Opus versions in less than four months. Most coverage will benchmark the model. The buried story is what the release cadence does to…

Opus 4.8 dropped a few hours ago. The announcement is, predictably, all benchmark deltas and SWE-bench numbers. The decision teams actually have to make this week is not 'is 4.8…