Opus 4.8 Launched, but Fast Mode Was the Real Win for Me
Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 with higher coding scores and frozen pricing — but as someone running Claude Code all day, the 2.5x faster, 3x cheaper fast mode was what actually landed.
Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 with higher coding scores and frozen pricing — but as someone running Claude Code all day, the 2.5x faster, 3x cheaper fast mode was what actually landed.