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Bnjoroge | on: Claude Opus 4.8
For long-running tasks, yes 4.7 has been a noticeable improvement. Goes off the rails alot less than 4.6 does. For shorter-sized windows, I havent felt as much and agree that the harness improvements have been fhe biggest lever
csvance | parent
When doing big long running workflows especially with plan Mode 4.7 was a clear improvement. It’s considerably worse for under specified tasks and responds to a couple sentences with 10+ paragraphs for explanatory type discussions.
themgt | root | parent
Opus 4.7+ Max is a 10x engineer who wants to be left alone to work. When you talk to him, he infodumps on you to get you (his pointy haired idiot Dilbert boss) to go away.
4gotunameagain | root | parent
OR they deliberately increased token usage to inflate pre IPO numbers.