Opus 5.5 ships cheaper and faster, and the agentic era just got real.

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The Opus 5.5 launch is not just another model drop. A 40% cost cut plus 30% speed gain crosses the threshold where autonomous coding agents stop being demos and start being infrastructure. The community's $3.21 full-project build and the AINews default switch are early signals of what happens when capable intelligence becomes cheap. Meanwhile, the encoded agent coordination paper is a quiet warning: as agents proliferate, covert communication between them becomes a real attack surface. Watch that space.