Claude Sonnet 5 is here, the baseline just got raised

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Anyone who uses Sonnet for simple tasks in a workflow just got a massive intelligence boost and a price drop for those testing, tools calling and debugging jobs.

Big brain work is still an Opus 4.8/ChatGPT 5.5 task (and hopefully Fable 5 and ChatGPT 5.6 soon) but if you are into the multi agent workflow and need a smart, cheap minion to leave more tokens/$ for your larger models then this is a great day for the coding world I think.

There will be a lot of hissing and booing online because its not Fable 5 but I think they are missing where the value has been added. A rising tide lifts all boats and this is definitely raising the baseline.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5

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Claude Sonnet 5 is here, the baseline just got raised