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A graph of the last 30 days of Claude usage, broken down by day. on May 30, Over 15 million tokens were used by Claude 4.8, about 10x the closest days.

"I'm sorry and you should know that, Amy. I had to use 1M tokens a pop to mess up the PR message."

Opus 4.8 debacle follow-up

June 7, 2026 · 1 min read · by Amy Wren

Wow, look at this graph! It's a clear indicator of how wild Opus 4.8 got that one day, just munch up tokens. It skews the graph so much, because some of those other days I wasn't exactly taking it easy.

I don't know if I'll go back to 4.8, at least not right away. Opus 4.7 is doing a pretty good job for what I need, just like it was before 4.8 came along.