Hey friends,
It feels crazy to me but it seems like there is so much happening in the AI coding world. I am trying out this new format to quickly share everything that I came across over the last week. Let me know if you have any feedback!
The week in 60 seconds
Anthropic shipped Sonnet 5.5. Anthropic says it's 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less for most work. Its own benchmark table puts it close to Opus 5.5 on most tests. Announcement
OpenAI held Dev Day. The big launch was GPT-6.1 Sol. OpenAI says it's nearly as smart as its top model, Astra, for a fifth of the price. OpenAI also launched Dots, an always-on personal agent, and a new $500/month plan. Users say the $200 plan now comes with about half the usage. Sol · Full recap
Google announced Gemini 4 Argon. Google says it scores 77.9% on DeepSWE, a test of long software tasks, which is the best score so far. It can write up to 1 million tokens in a single answer. Launch price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output. For now, only a small group of security teams can use it. Announcement
My 5 favorite posts from this week:
#1 "Claude finish last 10% no matter how long it takes"
So true - we all know the last 10% take 80% of the time
#2
I can finally talk to Claude again
#3
Good summary of everything that was announced at DevDay!
#4
Great post by Thariq that helps you understand the effort levels in Claude and how to use them
#5
In case you missed it, great talk by @poteto on how she ships 2000 (!) PRs to prod!
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— Abhishek