Sonnet 5.5 undercuts Opus pricing while Claude Code gets a plugin system.

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Two threads emerge today. First, the relentless commoditization of frontier performance: Sonnet 5.5 doing Opus work at half the cost is a meaningful inflection for anyone budgeting inference at scale. Second, Claude Code is quietly becoming a platform, not just a tool. Mods with hot-reload and permission scoping is developer ecosystem thinking. Meanwhile, the OLED wallpaper project is a clean reminder that the most interesting Claude outputs often come from code pipelines, not image generators. The meta-pattern: Claude is getting cheaper, more extensible, and more creative simultaneously.