Claude Opus 5.5 feels like a pricing story wearing a performance badge
What jumps out to me is not the “new model” label. It’s the part where Anthropic keeps saying this thing is faster, cheaper, and better at long messy coding jobs all at once. That’s the kind of claim every frontier-model launch makes, but here the cost reductions seem large enough that I’d actually want to test them myself on a real repo, not a benchmark cherry-pick. The coding examples are the interesting part, if only because they’re the least abstract. A 680,000-line migration “in less than a
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