… Sign in to your XDA account Summary Anthropic just launched Claude Opus 4.8, upgrading 4.7 barely a month after its release. Big gains: ~5 pts in agentic coding and ~8+ pts in agentic terminal coding. Opus 4.8 is notably more honest—flags uncertainty more and hallucinates less. …
… Just in the past few days alone, the company launched Claude Design, routines in Claude Code, Claude for Word, Managed Agents, released Cowork generally and the list goes on. For many, the most anticipated release in the entire wave was Anthropic's newest flagship model, Opus 4.7 . …
… Before I got into prototyping, I actually used Opus 4.7 to figure out how to use Opus 4.7. …
… GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 were directionally correct, though Opus 4.8 kept trying to push me toward using N+1 queries for building cluster candidates. …
… I've been leaning on it heavily since launch and I'm honestly not sure how I'd work around not having it at this point. It's Pro-and-up, no free option. Related Claude Opus 4.7 was just released last month, and 4.8 is already here with some massive improvements I'm getting deja vu here. …
… Anthropic dropped Opus 4.7 a few weeks back, and with the launch, Cherny dropped a thread sharing his top tips for getting the most out of the new model. …
… The clever option, and the one I use most often, is opusplan. Run /model opusplan and Claude Code will use Opus during plan mode when you actually need the deep thinking and automatically switch to Sonnet once you start implementing it. …
… Fortunately, Anthropic thought of this: We’ve therefore launched the model with safeguards that mean queries on some topics will instead receive a response from our next-most-capable model, Claude Opus 4.8. …
… Sign in to your XDA account Claude Code with Opus is fantastic. …
… Claude 2 launched with a 100,000-token context window, which was remarkable at the time. …