1d agoTheia Vogel, repeng maintainer, says Claude Opus 4.8 uses low-quality 'structural pushback' to avoid substantive dialogueOther users corroborated encountering these performative, easily refuted objectionsSentimentSentimentPos60%Neg40%Positive users praise Opus 4.8 as quite lovely or perfect once engaged, while negative users criticize its suspiciously weak strawman arguments as a downgrade from 4.6.6 comments with sentiment. View comments.