Early Sonnet 5.5 impressions: ~5x faster bug fixes at high effort
burkov · x · 2026-09-29
Andriy Burkov shares first impressions of asking Claude Sonnet 5.5 (high effort) questions about his code and bugs: the speed is "crazy" — the fastest he has ever experienced, and it fixes issues roughly five times faster than his previous workflow.
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