Anthropic moved with unusual speed. Just 41 days after releasing Claude Opus 4.7, the company unveiled Opus 4.8 on May 28. The new model arrives with the same pricing as its predecessor. It also brings features designed to push autonomous AI systems further into complex, long-duration work. Developers and enterprises noticed the pace. Opus 4.7 had drawn mixed reviews from some users who called its gains incremental at best. TechCrunch reported that feedback on platforms like X and LinkedIn described the prior version as disappointing. This time Anthropic aimed for tangible shifts in judgment and reliability rather than headline benchmark leaps alone. Opus 4.8 improves across coding, agentic tasks, and professional workflows. Early testers highlighted sharper decision-making.…