§ 00 — The LedeAnthropic ships Opus 4.8 with better agentic judgment — same price, sharper execution.The upgrade matters less for benchmark scores than for what early testers report: the model catches its own mistakes now.On May 28, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, upgrading from Opus 4.7 with improvements across coding, agentic skills, and reasoning…

§ 00 — The LedeAnthropic ships a thinking tool. The real product is the frame.Claude’s new Think mode isn’t about better answers — it’s about redefining what the chat interface is supposed to do.On May 22, Anthropic released Think, a new mode for Claude that surfaces extended reasoning traces before delivering an answer. The feature…