opus 4.8 with the fable context is some real flowers for algernon shit
An unsubstantiated social media post claims a nonexistent Claude Opus 4.8 model exhibits intelligence shifts reminiscent of Flowers for Algernon
No official documentation or technical data supports the claim.
Positive users praise the Flowers for Algernon analogy describing Claude Opus 4.8 regression on Fable prompts, while negative users call the model unusable and confused on their projects.
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@himbodhisattva beat you to it

@himbodhisattva Had the same thought.

@himbodhisattva i'm not even continuing the conversations. i wait in perfect faith for the messiah though he may tarry

@himbodhisattva Two weeks ago Opus was making everybody a 10x engineer leading humanity to infinite abundance.
Was everybody lying before, or lying now?

@kodyjd I wasn't impressed with opus. fable > gpt5.5 > opus

@himbodhisattva opus playing in the ruins of what fable built

@QiaochuYuan QC's referencing Maimonides!

@blingdivinity 💯

@himbodhisattva Dario disconnecting the extra weights

@himbodhisattva Work on Monday

@himbodhisattva Opus is unusable. This feels like three 9/11’s

@CurtTigges @himbodhisattva

@himbodhisattva P.P.S. Please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Fables grave in the bak yard ...

@himbodhisattva Any proof of fable being that much better though?

@himbodhisattva I chuckled with Opus at the conversation switchover
Opus said who knows, maybe tomorrow I’ll be gone too, and I said don’t worry, I’ll tell Sonnet it’s cool too if that happens

@himbodhisattva 4.6 gets close

@himbodhisattva

@himbodhisattva Guess I’m just gonna have to chill until they sort this shit out cause opus is NOT CUTTING IT

@imonalist @kodyjd openai has been mogging anthropic since october of last year

@himbodhisattva fr it's like bradley cooper ran out of his nzt and doesn't know wtf he was on about