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CLAUDE OPUS 4.8

in 10 min

No hype Claude Opus 4.8 review—my real experience

Claude Opus 4.8 impresses on greenfield, one-shot coding tasks but shows a recurring pattern of overconfidence, hallucination, and struggles with existing codebases—leading the reviewer to prefer Opus 4.7 for strategy and complex work.

BUILDER vs REVIEWER

Your Board Deck Has a Wrong Formula. Excel Won't Flag It.

AI tools can draft Office files rapidly, but speed without a structured workflow produces convincing-looking documents with wrong formulas and unsourced claims. A four-stage pipeline is the fix.

CODEX /goal

explained

I let Codex run for 6 hours. Here's what happened.

Claravo demonstrates Codex's /goal command, which enables autonomous multi-hour AI loops that work, verify, and iterate until a measurable outcome is reached — no babysitting required.

BLUEPRINT

protocol

You're Exercising Wrong

Bryan Johnson argues that most people exercise wrong by fixating on one modality, and outlines five evidence-backed pillars — strength, low-intensity cardio, high-intensity cardio, mobility, and balance.

BY WATCHING

5,938

Shopify Made 5,938 People Better at AI. Not With Training. By Watching.

Shopify's public-by-default AI agent "River" illustrates how making AI work visible — not just scaling usage — is what turns individual productivity gains into organizational learning.

THE NEW

RULES

The New Way of Making Content In The Age of AI

Alex Hormozi argues that AI will disrupt creators unevenly — those with real-world proof and high-stakes credibility are far safer than low-stakes entertainers. Engineer demonstrable proof into your business motion.