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

403 points · 261 comments · apitman

theropost · 1786045967 · focus · HN ↗
Anthropic is a bit nuts, I had $260 of credits on my max account for the extra usage the other night. It was expiring, so I figured I'll fire up an agentic swarm to deep dive and make some deep changes to some old cold bases.. literally 25 minutes or less, $260 burnt, it didn't get get into the implementation, just wrote a ton of useless plans for the most part. It really opened my eyes to what they expect to charge people.. wayyyy overpriced.
1. aenis · 1786047084 · focus · HN ↗
  I managed to lose around $300 in credits I had saved for some emergency /fast sessions the following way: switch to Fable. Work on the design. Downgrade to Opus for the build. If any of other parallel Opus session has /fast enabled it seems to enable it for the newly spawned session by default. Before I knew it, the $300 was gone. I think the bug is now solved, but it was rather unpleasant. I dont ever remember bugs that would drain my wallet - with claude code its just another Tuesday. Still love it.
  1. tempest_ · 1786047536 · focus · HN ↗
    I dont love it.
    Opus 5 is just a token burner.
    I use fable plan and spawn opus 4.8 workflows which seems to work alright.
    robbru · 1786048733 · focus · HN ↗
    Opus 5 loves to stop working "for safety reasons" and shuts down the session! I avoid it at all costs now. Opus 4.8 has been my default as well.

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