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Back to EpisodesSonnet 5.5 costs half as much as Opus 5.5 and beats it on one coding test, but hands-on builds still favor Opus
Description
Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.
Edition date: 2026-09-30
Chapters:
00:00 Sonnet 5.5 costs half as much as Opus 5.5 and beats it on one coding test, but hands-on builds still favor Opus
00:59 Claude Code's read-only safety check could be tricked into approving commands that run attacker code
02:03 Claude Code now starts sessions in auto mode as its plan-first setting loses its job
02:57 Running Claude Code without a live session used about 3x more of the 5-hour limit in one test
03:41 Some tool servers connect to Claude Code but show zero tools after a 30-second timeout
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