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Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

403 points · 261 comments · apitman

  1. onomojo · · focus · HN ↗
    Any benchmark showing Opus 5 as the best just loses credibility for me. Anyone who's actually used Opus 5 daily knows what I'm talking about.
    1. visarga · · focus · HN ↗
      Sent to solve one task, came back with half of it solved and 2 more problems.
      1. capnjazz · · focus · HN ↗
        "One thing worth your attention", "Two things worth knowing", "One thing to eyeball"
        1. greenchair · · focus · HN ↗
          This is driving me crazy. opus 4.8 did not do this to me not (at least during pre-5.0 timeframe). Feels like the new cycle is one step forward, two steps back.
        2. FridgeSeal · · focus · HN ↗
          And one of them is always something just completely out of scope and the other is something obvious it missed.

          “One thing worth your attention, if you were to detonate a pipe bomb in your house, it would have a negative effect on your living room”.

        3. ethin · · focus · HN ↗
          I don't use Claude code, just Claude web, and I get this all the time. Or (since I have it push me to actually think) it will ask me some question in our back-and-forth, and then right after it'll provide the answer. As a "hint". Like come on
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