Opus 5.5 Cut Prices 40% and Within a Day It Was Porting C to Rust: 8 Use Cases
alex_verem · x · 2026-09-23
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 with a 40% price cut, and within 24 hours the community pushed it hard. The author rounds up 8 use cases worth trying: porting C to Rust, rebuilding San Francisco, drawing cartoons frame by frame, and more — a snapshot of day-one real-world testing across coding, generation, and data tasks.
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