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title: "Comment by Grzegorz Małopolski on \"Claude Opus 4.8: Anthropic's New Flagship Tops Benchmarks Across Coding, Reasoning, and Alignment\" | Hashnode"
description: "Opus 4.8 works well, i use it from morning. Is more agentic, but think a little longer. It have more thinking options when i click Effort. now when i want tu un"
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[Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/claude-opus-4-8-benchmarks-what-changed/6a187ae878258754831d2544)

Comment [Claude Opus 4.8: Anthropic's New Flagship Tops Benchmarks Across Coding, Reasoning, and Alignment](https://hashnode.com/posts/claude-opus-4-8-benchmarks-what-changed/6a187ae878258754831d2544)

[Grzegorz Małopolski](https://hashnode.com/@archtocode)

[May 29](https://hashnode.com/posts/claude-opus-4-8-benchmarks-what-changed/6a187ae878258754831d2544/comment/6a196a4f52c4918e2654e49a)

Opus 4.8 works well, i use it from morning. Is more agentic, but think a little longer. It have more thinking options when i click Effort. now when i want tu understand my codebase faster by archtocode diagram tool Opus 4.8 create diagrams more advanced

[Oleh Kem](https://hashnode.com/@comparedge)

[May 29](https://hashnode.com/posts/claude-opus-4-8-benchmarks-what-changed/6a187ae878258754831d2544/comment/6a196a4f52c4918e2654e49a#reply-6a1978841335680297ea96e8)

Have you noticed Opus 4.7 or 4.6 'getting lazy' with complex tasks? Do you think the new default xhigh mode in Opus 4.8 finally fixes this?