We (mostly) like Claude Opus 4.8

Opus 4.8 + a ton of new stuff in Claude Code dropped this week, and we actually kinda like it. There's also a new benchmark that's actually good, and we have a lot of thoughts about the future of these AI labs...

Thank you PostHog and Clerk for sponsoring!

• PostHog, the all in one suite of product tools: nerdsnipe.link/posthog
• Clerk, the best dx in auth: nerdsnipe.link/clerk

SOURCES

• https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8
• https://x.com/theo/status/2060120708815139241
• https://x.com/Baconbrix/status/2060065875911422343
• ⁠https://x.com/zoink/status/2060769829133721974
• https://x.com/maria_rcks/status/2060937270824153251
• https://x.com/_catwu/status/2060054180379689074
• https://x.com/datacurve/status/2060834005998793199
• https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/
• https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/blog#results
• https://github.com/scaleapi/SWE-agent/blob/402a7b8fdac8193f3f255bb53859ba274234f596/config/benchmarks/anthropic_filemap_multilingual.yaml
• https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/
• https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2060061347522433422
• https://x.com/theo/status/2060199299632472494
• https://x.com/theo/status/2060901326058561795
• https://x.com/38twelveDaily/status/2060408696945975631

00:00 - Shower Thoughts

02:44 - Deep SWE Benchmark

10:45 - Opus vs GPT-5.5

19:57 - Anthropic’s Huge Raise

25:39 - Token Maxing

40:02 - AI Slot Machine

43:49 - Claude Code Friction

50:01 - Opus, Mythos, and Safety