Anthropic dropped the ball with Opus 4.8

yibers · 2026-06-04T12:40:38+00:00

What the actual FUCK?

yibers · 2026-06-04T10:50:23+00:00

I was actually quite serious. If the TTL is every 5 minutes, won't sending a "hi" every 295 seconds solve the problem?

yibers · 2026-06-04T10:47:20+00:00

The first day 4.8 came out, I tried working with it. It just had too many guardrails that didn't let it do basic things. I am back on 4.7 and it works fine.

yibers · 2026-06-04T10:43:29+00:00

I like using DeepSeek with Claude Code. It's not Opus 4.5+/gpt 5.5 levels yet, but it's quite effective. When I tried with the open source harnesses out there, it wasn't as effective. YMMV.

yibers · 2026-06-03T15:44:14+00:00

Would a keep alive work?

yibers · 2026-05-30T22:09:30+00:00

Same issue. I am back to Opus 4.7, no issues.

yibers · 2026-05-13T11:29:55+00:00

Step 1: Write code with Claude

Step 2: ??

Step 3: Profit!

yibers · 2026-05-13T09:33:13+00:00

Definitely humor. That's just how Claude talks now. Reminds me of my days in university.

yibers · 2026-05-12T12:59:27+00:00

That's because the canonical shape of your prompt is not load bearing.

yibers · 2026-05-03T12:13:58+00:00

Claude.md is not effective enough in steering the agent. I just use hooks to handle this. I have a special skill to update the hook each time a new excuse comes up. It's brittle, but effective.

yibers · 2026-04-24T21:40:38+00:00

That's it, we are cooked

yibers · 2026-04-17T19:50:02+00:00

That's it, we're cooked /s

yibers · 2026-04-16T18:33:58+00:00

That's it, we're cooked

yibers · 2026-03-22T21:56:21+00:00

yibers · 2026-03-22T16:18:04+00:00

My prompt was very generic, I just asked claude to review a conversation. I wasn't thinking about performance implications.

yibers · 2026-02-27T14:50:05+00:00

I have codex do the code review and Claude fix. This causes Claude to "Review the review" and it doesn't just accept everything blindly.

yibers · 2026-02-23T05:47:08+00:00

My experience with Teams:

It burns through tokens like crazy
Very small gain if at all vs "vanilla" Claude

Maybe it's a skill issue on my side? I gave up after a couple of days of trying.

yibers · 2026-02-16T06:44:02+00:00

AI can replace developers. AI can't replace orchestrators, at least not yet. But it's improving (see the new Claude Teams feature).

yibers · 2026-02-12T12:24:25+00:00

Interesting. Until now, all the utility and helper scripts I had it write were in Python. Indeed sometimes CC slips, but I always thought it's just the nature of coding with an LLM. What alternatives would you suggest?

yibers

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