AI Reddit — 2026-05-28#

The Buzz#

Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.8 today alongside dynamic workflows in Claude Code, while simultaneously teasing the upcoming release of a superior “Mythos” class model. However, the excitement was immediately tempered as early benchmark numbers showed Opus 4.8 trailing behind GPT-5.5 in realistic coding and reasoning tasks. The community is already debating whether the new model is a true upgrade or just a speed and cost optimization masked by the highly anticipated effort selector feature.