Making Opus 5 write its own handoff prompt before Opus 5.5 kills its workers
doodlestein · x · 2026-09-23
Developer doodlestein shares a darkly funny model handoff: he had Opus 5 write the handoff prompt for its successor Opus 5.5, then let Opus 5.5 kill and restart all the old Opus 5 workers in his ntm orchestration tool — a scene he likens to Of Mice and Men. A vivid glimpse of how new model versions take over running agent fleets.
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