Sonnet 5.5: Test the Token Savings Before You Switch
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The token price stayed put. Anthropic says Sonnet 5.5 can still cost up to 30% less per task because it uses fewer tokens to finish the work. Does that saving survive your own jobs, bills, and quality checks?
Augur explains the replay to run before changing model routing, and the conditions behind Sonnet's headline benchmark result. The episode also covers OpenAI's third-party incident notifications, Ollama's local decision-model interface, Mistral's Munich engineering hub, and Google's planned Trillium space test.
The benchmark and efficiency figures are vendor-reported…
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