Opus 4.8 - Ben's Bites

Opus 4.8

NVIDIA and Microsoft birthed a new computer

Jun 02, 2026

Hey folks,

I’m spending as much time as possible off Twitter, and any other general doomscroll distractions. I’ve got work to do (the course/manual/whatever it’ll be called).

Aiming to get at least the preview ‘lessons’ out this month.

I’m not going to force any wisdom out in today’s intro because it’s not my style.

On to the condensed version of the AI madness…

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Headlines

Claude Opus 4.8 is out, with dynamic workflows in Claude Code. Claude now writes an orchestration script, then spins up subagents in parallel to work through complex tasks.
Dex’s take: this doesn’t prove loose multi-agent systems work. Deterministic workflows around small agent loops are more reliable.
Claude Opus 4.8 - Simon Willison calls it a modest but useful upgrade, mostly because it’s more honest about uncertainty and less likely to miss flaws in its own code. Every’s vibe check is more bullish: they found it a big jump from 4.7, strong at coding/writing/knowledge work, and competitive with GPT-5.5 on their internal senior-engineer benchmark. The catch is the harness: the model is back, but Claude’s app still feels messier than Codex.
Scores top on ARC-AGI-3, tripling 5.5’s score
Datacurve’s new benchmark places it below gpt 5.5 and only marginally better than 5.4. Using a lot more tokens…$$$.
Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 and raised a round $65B Series H at $965B post-money. IPO this year?
NVIDIA and Microsoft are reinventing Windows PCs for personal AI agents — RTX Spark is a 1-petaflop Windows superchip with up to 128GB unified memory, full CUDA/RTX support, local 120B model support, and new Windows agent security primitives + NVIDIA OpenShell. Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra is the flagship device.
Codex is becoming a productivity tool for everyone
Stacker's AI Accelerator is offering $500k in inference credits to businesses ready to go AI-first. Selected companies get credits and hands-on mentoring to deploy AI agents across their operations. Applications close June 9th. Apply now.*

My feed

Stacker is an AI coworker that joins the dots in your business. Stacker lives in Slack, connects your tools, and does the work.*
ChatGPT has a new table of contents UI for long chats, and a full-screen long-form writing mode that can save drafts to your Library.
Codex got computer use + mobile remote control on Windows and a Python SDK.
Replit added a Canvas to create variants, annotate, compare design directions and apply changes back into your app.
Figma Make now works on your local code - visually edit the app, annotate, chat and open PRs.
Linear’s new product Diffs adds PR review into Linear, with guided reviews and agent iteration.
SkillSpector - a new security scanner for skills by NVIDIA
Google AI Studio now lets you build apps that connect to Gmail, Drive, Sheets and more without jumping through other Google Cloud screens.
Agent Cookie - syncs cookies, CLI tokens and API keys from your laptop to a Mac mini running OpenClaw/Hermes.
Agent Handler for Employees: secure AI access for every employee.
Impeccable 3.5 - design skill for coding agents with model-specific anti-pattern rules.
Four tips to help agents understand your codebase.
Sandboxes are becoming the OS for agents.
30 mins epsiode on /goal and how to use it in Codex.
Building Grok Imagine in 3 months and Video Agents.
The most rational take on AI you’ll hear this year

Afters

Emil Kowalski@emilkowalskiTo get good animations from an AI you need to get good at telling it what you want: - "stagger this list of items" - "make this animation direction-aware" - "spacial consistency", "crossfade", "layout animation", I made a motion vocabulary for this: [animations.dev/vocabulary](http://animations.dev/vocabulary) 12:35 PM · Jun 1, 2026 · 144K Views45 Replies · 196 Reposts · 2.84K Likes Wes Winder@weswinderthis codex prompt is literally the best thing ever if you are building react apps and want the cleanest possible code simply run "/goal run npx react-doctor@latest and fix issues until you get a score of 100. do it properly without taking any shortcuts" in codex thank me later 9:06 PM · May 29, 2026 · 92K Views55 Replies · 88 Reposts · 1.78K Likes Lenny Rachitsky@lennysanMy biggest takeaways from @benedictevans: 1. We’re in 1997 for AI—it’s as big a deal as the internet or mobile, and only as big a deal as the internet or mobile. We’re at the stage where most stuff kind of doesn’t work yet, most of what people will build hasn’t been built, andLenny Rachitsky @lennysanA rational conversation on where AI is actually going with @benedictevans For 20+ years, Benedict has been one of the clearest, most reliable thinkers on where technology is heading, and how it'll impact our lives. He was @a16z's resident "thinker" for 5+ years, and has spent2:18 PM · Jun 1, 2026 · 126K Views37 Replies · 70 Reposts · 565 Likes Farza 🇵🇰🇺🇸@FarzaTVWatch me control my computer with just my voice. This is the future of operating systems. No hands. GPT-Realtime 2.0 is very, very underrated. Demo: 11:26 PM · May 30, 2026 · 3.32M Views880 Replies · 781 Reposts · 13.6K Likes

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