Engineers have spent years coaxing large language models to handle tasks beyond simple code completion. They paste in context, iterate on prompts, and hope the output survives first contact with a real codebase. Anthropic just handed them something different. On May 28, 2026, the company released Claude Opus 4.8 alongside a research-preview feature called dynamic workflows in Claude Code. The combination lets one model spin up tens to hundreds of parallel subagents, write its own orchestration code, check its work, and push through projects that once took teams months. The announcement landed with little fanfare yet carried immediate weight. Claude’s official blog post described how the system moves past single-turn reasoning. Claude writes orchestration scripts on the fly. It fans work across subagents running in parallel. Each subagent tackles a slice of the problem. Results flow back, get verified, and feed into the next round.…