If Claude Opus 5.5 were as good as Anthropic's launch videos, I might actually be excited.
Instead I see this announcement and know we're due for a Codex banked reset.
Introducing Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in our new Claude 5.5 family.
It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.