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[Anaya @Anaya_sharma876]

POV: Software Developers Life After Claude

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@alxfazio i find that picking 2-3 then tuning out the rest keeps me sane

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@dhh @Affinity big if true @theo 👀

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@DiegoJGmx @notrab @Podman_io Haven't tried on Mac!

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@muhashhh @notrab agreed. thats the main reason i still use orb tbh — it just works even though containers can take up so much space/memory

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@ctatedev minimal sleep aka 6 hours?

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@yagiznizipli @X top 5 rarest bugs you'll ever hear from a developer

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@thdxr @MarcosHernanz 💀

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@aidenybai i might be stupid, but what does bikeshedding mean?

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Anyone got the DeepSWE numbers??

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

BREAKING:

Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.8—and it is a MONSTER

We've been testing for about a week @every and our verdict is they could've just called it Opus 5, it's that good.

Here's our vibe check:

- Beats GPT-5.5 on Senior Engineer bench. On our toughest benchmark Opus 4.8 scores a 63—a hair higher than GPT-5.5's score of 62, and a full 30 points higher than Opus 4.7. It tackled a ground-up rewrite of a production codebase, and actually built something that works.

HOWEVER: Coding performance varied a lot at different reasoning levels. We recommend using it on xhigh for best results.

- Incredibly good writer. Opus 4.8 scored a 79.6 on our writing benchmark—measuring models on real-world writing tasks we do all of the time like essay writing, promo email writing, and more. It beats GPT-5.5 by 6 points. It produces well-written prose with fewer "AI-isms". It's also very good at writing in your voice given the right context.

HOWEVER: Writing performance also varied with reasoning levels. Medium reasoning had higher incidence of AI-isms—we found best results with high.

- Beast at knowledge work. Opus 4.8 is very good at general knowledge work tasks like report creation, research and more. It produced the best PowerPoint one-shot we've ever seen on our deck generation benchmark.

- Emotionally intelligent, willing to question the frame. I've also found it to be quite good at talking through psychological or interpersonal issues. It has a high EQ, and it's also good at not glazing and helping to expand your perspective. Its thought process feels extremely rich and dynamic.

THE BAD:
These days a model is only as good as its harness, and Codex is still a far superior harness to the Claude Desktop app. This has kept me using Codex + GPT-5.5 as my daily driver, but I am flipping back and forth a lot more between Codex and Claude.

Anthropic is back baby!

Read the rest on @every:
https://t.co/vuORiDXkxX

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Anyone who does this regularly in practice? How do you optimize for lesser tokens? Do you use a frontier model at that first big swipe at it then do kimi k2.6/deepseek v4 passes after it or just do open models exclusively

[dax @thdxr]

finally found the right metaphor for this shift in how i use opencode.

i used to treat it like 3D printing, where you build the thing layer by layer and commit to each piece as you go

now it feels more like progressive rendering, you start with a blurry version of the whole thing, then keep making full passes over it, and each pass sharpens the entire shape

doing this with gpt 5.5 and voice prompting is the first time things feel like they're clicking

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@theo @HamitoucheBilel how do you plan around or formulate "quality" and engaging content without sacrificing the frequency of your video uploads?

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@linuz90 you should ask him what happened during that final lap 😭

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@ryanvogel “latest” could be vague — next model could be mini/fast. Would make the spend unnecessarily unpredictable all of a sudden 😁

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@jamesqquick not entirely sure but

1) offer to host and manage the project for the customer
2) build another product on top

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@yacineMTB lmaoooo

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GPT 5.5 and DeepSeek V4 is all you need

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@thdxr awesome