Yeah, I went through a period after 4.7 launched of not using Claude for code work at all because of the condescending refusals. (Kept using it for planning and design work). Still had three pretty bad refusals from 4.8, but not the same quantity as from 4.7.

Claude.ai is pretty frustrating too. It will talk to me as if anything I ask for is below it. Could be the system prompt I use, but I did not have this issue with 4.6.

Yes, I tend to prefer GPT, but I can't remember having GPT ever refuse a direct instruction that wasn't an obvious ToS violation.