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To hide the severity of the price increase, the plan is to move everyone right one model.

Haiku = essentially phased out Sonnet = the Haiku use cases Opus = the new Sonnet class Fable = the new Opus class

If I am right, the other "5.0" models will be conspicuously absent, possibly even for a couple of months. (If Opus 5 follows soon and is even modestly better than 4.8 then I was wrong.)

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Yeah I noticed that too. For 98% of tasks I get same results with DeepSeek, it is starting to just be a branding game. It is incredible how marketing can get someone to pay 100x for same thing you can get for 1x.

This is why Claude Code just doesn't make sense to me. I need an agent that can plan using Opus and execute using DeepSeek or something else.

Have Opus write the plan to a file then execute it with DS.

Once codex 20usd per month is gone, I am out to deepseek

Yes this is Slate

> To hide the severity of the price increase, the plan is to move everyone right one model.

> Haiku = essentially phased out Sonnet = the Haiku use cases Opus = the new Sonnet class Fable = the new Opus class

Going along with your logic, I hope they release a Sonnet 5 that's just a rebranded, slightly quantised Opus 4.6. That'll be a great workhorse.

I doubt they'll phase out Haiku, some work needs speed more than intelligence. Haiku can answer a lot faster than Sonnet.

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