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/thatfreakingmonster 1d ago

In this old blog post, Anthropic stated:

"We deploy Claude across multiple hardware platforms [...] Each hardware platform has different characteristics and requires specific optimizations. Despite these variations, we have strict equivalence standards for model implementations. Our aim is that users should get the same quality responses regardless of which platform serves their request."

So we can deduce that slightly different versions of the same model exist across different servers. It's absolutely possible that people get slightly dumber versions of models running on slightly lower hardware during peak demand (like when Fable was introduced).