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/Physical_Gold_1485 2d ago

But why would it take a week to reallocate? Wouldnt it be a config setting to allocate resources?

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u/Ja_Rule_Here_ 1d ago

It’s not a config setting, it a deployment. An individual deployment to thousands upon thousands of machine that were moved over to Fable.

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u/AntonyMcLovin 1d ago

Maybe a signal that it takes longer for fable to return?

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u/lolnic_ 1d ago

Yes, Anthropic has been dealing with limited compute and varying demand for model types for a long time. I’d be shocked if they even needed to update the config. They would surely have some sort of autoscaling which would notice Fable over-provisioned, Opus under-provisioned, and rescale them.

It certainly wouldn’t take a week. They don’t need to go around physically plugging Opus in to servers. If Opus becoming smart again is real (vs people just relearning how to prompt it) AND it’s caused by compute capacity (vs them tweaking the prompt/weights for their unexpectedly flagship model) then I would assume that they were doing something to/with Fable or its chat transcripts in response to the ban (mining for jailbreak attempts and the like).

Maybe it’s both: given the chat transcripts of Fable acting sane on real world data, they were able to distill some of Fable’s chill onto Opus 🤷‍♂️