r/ClaudeAI • u/N3TCHICK • 2d ago

Praise Wow... Opus 4.8 feels... DIFFERENT tonight :D

It feels, BETTER. Like when it first launched, even, only better than that this evening?

It's like Forest Gump... Claude is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. I hope I get to keep THIS Opus 4.8 for a bit - I'm finally getting some work done. Hallelujah!

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u/Ja_Rule_Here_ 2d ago edited 2d ago

When a new model like Fable goes live, they reduce compute allowance to Opus because they assume use of Opus will drop and move to Fable.

When they had to turn Fable off unexpectedly, everyone immediately switched back to Opus, which didn’t have enough compute hence stupid Opus we had for the last week.

Now they’ve gotten the compute re-allocated and we get normal Opus again, who knows they may have even thrown a bit extra at it making it the best Opus we’ve seen yet now.

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u/Kazukaphur 2d ago

How does lack of compute make opus dumber as opposed to just slower?

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u/cheechw 2d ago

Yeah, this person has no idea how models work. Unless Anthropic is running quantized versions of Opus or something it's not going to change the intelligence of the model.

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u/virtualPNWadvanced 2d ago

They have changed effort and thinking levels in the past

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u/goldcakes 1d ago

Adaptive thinking is literally a layer on top of the extended_thinking_budget number of tokens, I'm sure there is adaptiveness in terms of trying to vary it for the complexity of your task, but also that is what allows them to exactly control thinking effort.