gregharned

The multi-agent angle is interesting from a cost perspective. At Opus 4.6 pricing ($15/MTok input, $75/MTok output), running several concurrent agents on 1M context sessions gets expensive fast — but the math still works if you're replacing hours of senior engineer time.

The shift I've noticed: 1M context makes "load the whole codebase once, run many agents" viable, whereas before you were constantly re-chunking and losing context. The per-task cost goes up but the time-to-correct-output drops significantly.

The harder problem for most teams is routing — knowing which tasks actually need Opus at 1M vs. Sonnet at 200k. Opus 4.6 at 1M is overkill for 80% of coding tasks. The ROI only works if you're being intentional about when to use it.