Sonnet 5.5 feels less like a breakthrough and more like Anthropic tightening the screws
What jumped out at me is how aggressively Anthropic is leaning on “cheaper, faster, good enough” here. That’s the real story, not the benchmark theater. If you build with Claude, Sonnet 5.5 sounds like the model you’d actually reach for most days: bug fixes, docs, spreadsheets, routine agent work. That’s the useful lane. I’m also a little skeptical of how much comfort people should take from the headline scores. Yes, Sonnet 5.5 edges out Opus 5.5 on one benchmark slice, and yes, it apparently do
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