New Haiku matches last year's frontier, meaning Claude Code-class capability is heading toward 'too cheap to meter'
johnvmcdonnell · x · 2026-10-08
johnvmcdonnell observes that Anthropic's new Haiku is roughly where the frontier was 12 months ago, implying that Claude Code-type coding capability will become 'too cheap to meter' over the next year. The signal: frontier coding ability is rapidly sliding down the cost curve into cheap small models, a substantive shift for coding-agent pricing and adoption.
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