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1. rdli · 1791060574 · focus · HN ↗

   It’s a really good model. Over the past few days, I give Opus some general directives to basically speed up our CI, and telling it I care both about billing minutes and wall clock time. I told it to create a plan after analyzing everything in our CI, run the plan by a Fable subagent, and then focus on low-risk, high-reward changes.

   9 hours later, I had 12 PRs ready to be merged, and the net result is CI time has dropped from ~10 minutes to ~4 minutes, and billing minutes have dropped around 60%. Less than an hour of my attention.

   1. whatsThisBtn4 · 1791062326 · focus · HN ↗

      Meh... There's a reason Opus 4.6 is still an option.

      Pros know these are lower cost models.

      1. oidar · 1791064329 · focus · HN ↗

         I do like Opus 4.6, but I think 5.5 on medium or low is a better value. I have to steer 4.6 more and build more scaffolding around the tasks. 5.5 just does what I ask. Visual spatial reasoning greatly improved in 5.5 as well.

         1. whatsThisBtn4 · 1791113338 · focus · HN ↗

            I pass costs to my customers, so it doesn't really matter. They are getting 30k in value for $1000.

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