Ryan Orhan(@rynorhn):i need to understand what the fuck anthropic did with opus 5.5. it's dramatically better than opus 5, it's faster, it apparently needs less compute to serve, and people are absolutely hammering it on claude max without their usage disappearing. usually capability this good is fucking expensive, somehow anthropic moved capability and efficiency at the same time.

2026.09.27 12:29

i need to understand what the fuck anthropic did with opus 5.5. it's dramatically better than opus 5, it's faster, it apparently needs less compute to serve, and people are absolutely hammering it on claude max without their usage disappearing. usually capability this good is fucking expensive, somehow anthropic moved capability and efficiency at the same time.