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Re:Claude Haiku 5.5 by flaburgan on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:01AM (#50002254)
They say it in the announcement: Haiku is basically useful to be called as a subagent. So you use Opus, and you want to investigate your production logs, instead of throwing them right away which is going to use a massive amount of token for mostly noise data, Opus asks Haiku to determine patterns to extract only the relevant logs and feed it back in Opus. The models are meant to be used together.
Re:Claude Haiku 5.5 by walthamstow on Thursday October 08, 2026 @06:39AM (#50004154)
> The models are meant to be used together.

If that was the case, then Claude Code would use smaller models for subagents. It doesn't. The subagent always inherits the parent model unless you tell it specifically not to.