LangChain's Lance Martin on Opus 5.5: Strong Coding, Good Writing, Lower Price
RLanceMartin · x · 2026-09-23
LangChain's RLance Martin commented on the newly released Opus 5.5: excellent at coding, great at writing, and cheaper.
He recommends running /claude-api migrate in the latest Claude Code to update application code, and /claude-api prompt-audit to check that skills and prompts are well tuned, plus a short video overview.
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