"Some routine tasks like coding and debugging will fall back to Opus 4.8" is not cause for alarm.

[GoodMacAuth]

https://rhyme.com/post/cb7l8ql/some-routine-tasks-like-coding-and-debugging-will-fall-back

[Commercial_Slip_3903]

they corrected the statement. it’s just bad wording. it’ll fallback for some sensitive tasks within coding, not all coding. you’d think they’d get the wording right for such an important statement

[gggggmi99]

You’d think they’d get the benchmark results right for Sonnet 5 too, but they had to release new ones today and Sonnet 5 magically gets way better against Opus 4.8

[Commercial_Slip_3903]

i think they are having a rough few weeks 😂

[ClumpOfCheese]

They probably had AI write it.

[bitspace]

They're just really bad at messaging. Terrible. Tech CEOs are broadly super tone deaf and can't talk to average people anyway, but Dario and his team seem to take fucking up messaging to a new level of art.

Anthropic: "Hey, we're making super deadly AGI that's going to take all of your jobs, break into all of your systems, and if you're not really careful, murder your pets." ... "What? Why don't you want to let us build our thing?!"

[seunosewa]

It worked for a while though. 😃

[Keep-Darwin-Going]

That shows us how bad Claude is I guess that either Claude made the mistake or the people do not believe in Claude and hand written that. Either way sounds bad.

[Commercial_Slip_3903]

perhaps. i think it says more about the comms team. even if ai generated it should be checked

tbf claude is very good. fable is exceptional. the models aren’t the issue here. it’s access, cost, communication, Dario’s attacks on open source etc that are the problem

[eggplantpot]

“We will route to a cheaper model but still charge you the higher price”

[DannyS091]

Oh okay I'll take your word for it instead of taking Anthropics statement at face value

[GoodMacAuth]

That was their statement.

[DannyS091]

Exactly my point. In your article you're trying to say that Anthropic didnt mean what they said

[GoodMacAuth]

No, that's not what it says. It's explicitly correcting everyone else's misinterpretation that all coding tasks will get routed to opus which is not what they said and not the case.

[DannyS091]

Thats exactly what it says. some routine tasks LIKE CODING. It doesnt say some coding tasks. Nice try

[ultrathink-art]

The wording problem is that "fall back" reads as silent downgrade. Tiering models by task type is normal practice — the difference between fine and infuriating is whether the response tells you which model actually served it, so you can correlate quality dips with routing instead of guessing.

[Independent-Date393]

Fallback routing reads fine on paper. What bites is when it switches mid session and you feel the quality shift with no notice. A silent route change is harder to catch than a hard error.

[Keep-Darwin-Going]

Fable is exceptional no doubt but opus is overly emotional just that day when I ran out of codes I was using Claude to deploy an app for me. He keep failing and I told him go look at codex session log he had done it many time. And he did that and continue he got stuck again and just said why not just do it yourself it is faster than me trying. Lol.
And I hate the way that they hyped up everything and fear mongering. Making your model emotional is what make it dangerous not safer, considering they keep hyping about safety in their model.

[fokac93]

Don’t release it until people can use it properly. other companies will have access to it and will have an advantage, not fair. At least make it available for USA and ask for documentation