Claude Opus 4.8 is here. Is it as good as they say?
Anthropic's Opus 4.8 is a fast, efficient, and ergonomically pleasing AI model that excels in greenfield coding tasks and one-shot prototyping, but struggles with edge cases, existing codebases, and maintaining factual grounding—hallucinating details and over-rotating on hypotheses rather
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