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Re:Sonnet 5.5 by bigyabai on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:01PM (#49881908)
It's long overdue. Sonnet 5 was terrible API value for agentic coding, there were open models like GLM-5.3 Flash that blew it out of the water at 1/20th of the price.

OpenAI and Anthropic's lead is vanishingly small at this point.

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Re:Sonnet 5.5 by TuxSH on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:14PM (#49882098)
> OpenAI and Anthropic's lead is vanishingly small at this point.

Yep, with them nerfing their plans (and apparently planning to release a $500/$600/mo plan) their only advantage is Astra without 5hr limits and with not-too-stringent "cyber" safeguards.

Ergo, it's pretty damn good at unattended RE with the IDA MCP plugin while using most of the weekly quota at $100/mo... and that's it.

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Re:Sonnet 5.5 by SubiculumCode on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:10PM (#49882023)
Yeah, I did kind of feel like the step down from Opus 5.5 was so large as to never make it appealing.
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Re:Sonnet 5.5 by bbor on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:21PM (#49882211)
Your takeaway from "Sonnet 5.5 matches and sometimes exceeds the SoTA worldwide" is "their lead is vanishingly small"...?
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