Haiku 5.5 deserves more love: 1/50 the cost of Opus for the first 100k tokens
daniel-sousa-me · reddit · 2026-10-15
The author argues Haiku 5.5 is underappreciated: its outputs are usually better than Opus 4.6 — the SOTA just 6 months ago — yet the first 100k tokens cost only 1/50 as much.
His workflow: coordinating agents keep breaking work into small chunks delegated to Haiku agents that stay under 100k tokens, plus a hook that warns at 80k and 95k tokens to prevent overruns. With this setup he gets a ton done while his usage barely moves.
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