Routing for long-horizon coding agents is a big deal.... Not Diamond just announced a model router that works natively with Claude Code. This is huge. It picks the model and reasoning effort before each turn in a session, runs through a privacy-preserving local proxy, and your requests still execute through your own gateway. In their benchmarks, it approximates Opus 4.8 Xhigh quality at 39 to 61 percent lower cost.show more

HERMES AGENT NOW RUNS CLAUDE OPUS 5. NEAR FABLE... 5 INTELLIGENCE. HALF THE PRICE. SELF-VERIFIES ITS OWN WORK. AVAILABLE TODAY VIA NOUS PORTAL (20% OFF ALL MODELS). Anthropic shipped Opus 5 on July 24, 2026. same $5/$25 per million tokens as Opus 4.8. but the benchmarks tell a different story. WHAT CHANGED FROM OPUS 4.8: FrontierBench v0.1: Opus 5: 43.3%. Opus 4.8: 18.7%. 2.3x jump on the same test. ARC-AGI-3: Opus 5: 30.2%. 3x better than the next closest model. beat Fable 5 on 8 out of 13 benchmarks. at half the cost ($5/$25 vs $10/$50). same price as Opus 4.8. twice the intelligence. no reason to stay on 4.8. THE SPECS: model ID: claude-opus-5 context: 1M tokens (default and maximum) max output: 128K tokens thinking: on by default effort toggle: low / medium / high per request fast mode: $10/$50, 2.5x faster knowledge cutoff: May 2026 minimum cacheable prompt: 512 tokens (was 1,024) SELF-VERIFICATION (the biggest change): Opus 5 checks its own work automatically. Anthropic says: delete your verification prompts. "include a final verification step" now causes OVER-verification because the model already does it. for Hermes /goal tasks this is a direct upgrade. the judge checks evidence. the model also checks evidence. double layer of verification without extra tokens. EFFORT TOGGLE: low: fast, cheap, routine work. medium: balanced, daily tasks. high: full reasoning, complex problems. set per request. not a global switch. matches Hermes /reasoning command: /reasoning low (routine) /reasoning high (complex) Opus 5 effort toggle + Hermes reasoning control = precise cost management per turn. WHERE OPUS 5 FITS IN HERMES: DAILY DRIVER (replaces Opus 4.8): same price. 2.3x better benchmarks. set as your main model: Desktop app / Dashboard: Models → claude-opus-5 CHIEF OF STAFF: synthesis across multiple agents. reads Kanban, prioritizes, routes tasks. self-verification catches routing errors before they cascade. COMPLEX CODING: SOTA on agentic coding benchmarks. FrontierBench 43.3% = best public model for coding. set as coder profile model. /GOAL TASKS: self-verification + completion contracts = the model proves its work AND double-checks the proof. long-horizon goals finish correctly more often. MoA AGGREGATOR: strongest synthesis model at $5/$25. pair with GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 as references. Opus 5 aggregates. best quality at mid-range price. presets: max-quality: reference_models: - provider: openai-codex model: gpt-5.6-sol - provider: xai model: grok-4.5 aggregator: provider: anthropic model: claude-opus-5 COMPUTER USE: near-Fable 5 quality for browser automation. at half the token cost per session. computer_use tasks burn lots of vision tokens. Opus 5 halves that bill vs Fable 5. WHAT TO KEEP OPUS 5 AWAY FROM: cron monitoring: too expensive. use DeepSeek or no_agent mode. sub-agent grunt work: use GPT-5.6 Luna ($1/$6) or DeepSeek. auxiliary tasks: use Gemini Flash. routine web extraction: use a cheap model. Opus 5 is for the turns where quality compounds. planning, synthesis, verification, complex reasoning. budget models handle everything else. NOUS PORTAL: 20% OFF ALL MODELS Nous Portal currently runs a 20% discount on all models including Opus 5. $5/$25 official → $4/$20 through Nous Portal. the cheapest way to run Opus 5 right now. hermes setup --portal select claude-opus-5 as your model. discount applies automatically. Opus 5 replaces Opus 4.8 everywhere. same price. better at everything. no tradeoff. straight upgrade. hermes update /model claude-opus-5show more

This is not Grok-4. It's an Opensource AI Coding... model soon to be coming out of China. And it works incredibly well with Cline and Claude Code. It's going to be a huge day for AI coding models.show more

Grok 4.5 is sitting at #2 on the FrontierSWE... leaderboard. Above Claude Opus 4.8. Above GPT-5.5. So yes, the coding model conversation just got a little more crowded at the top. Strong performance is one thing. Doing it with serious speed, better token efficiency, and lower cost is where it gets annoying for everyone else. Builders love a smart model. SpaceXAI Grok X Freeze / Writer: Annette, Designer: Jannéshow more

50% cheaper Claude inference with just one line of... code change! - Remove → model="claude-opus-4-8" - Add → model="ship-like/claude-opus-4-8" I verified the cost saving in my own terminal by invoking the same Anthropic model with the same prompt. The underlying engineering by Ship is actually interesting, and the patterns can be used in any production LLM stack. Essentially, a trained model is a frozen artifact. Every request performs the same forward-pass, whether it extracts a date or refactors a module, because the compute decision was made at training time, before the request existed. Ship makes that decision at inference time instead. After seeing a request, it searches over executions, involving single models, cascades, ensembles, or harnesses with tools, and serves the cheapest one that will match the reference model's quality. This is not a basic router, because picking a cheaper model per query doesn't ensure the cheaper model preserves the original's behavior, like output shape, tool-call patterns, and refusals. Ship measures this equivalence directly. Outputs stay distributionally indistinguishable from the reference model, not token-identical, since two calls to the same model already differ, but they are indistinguishable in capability and behavior. Of course, some requests execute cheaply and some cost Ship more than the customer pays, but the price per request is still a flat 50% off either way, so the execution-cost variance moves off the application's bill entirely. The video below depicts the cost savings and output in my real invocation, and I partnered with the team to put this together.show more

BREAKING: Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.8—and it is a... MONSTER We've been testing for about a week Every 🪨 and our verdict is they could've just called it Opus 5, it's that good. Here's our vibe check: - Beats GPT-5.5 on Senior Engineer bench. On our toughest benchmark Opus 4.8 scores a 63—a hair higher than GPT-5.5's score of 62, and a full 30 points higher than Opus 4.7. It tackled a ground-up rewrite of a production codebase, and actually built something that works. HOWEVER: Coding performance varied a lot at different reasoning levels. We recommend using it on xhigh for best results. - Incredibly good writer. Opus 4.8 scored a 79.6 on our writing benchmark—measuring models on real-world writing tasks we do all of the time like essay writing, promo email writing, and more. It beats GPT-5.5 by 6 points. It produces well-written prose with fewer "AI-isms". It's also very good at writing in your voice given the right context. HOWEVER: Writing performance also varied with reasoning levels. Medium reasoning had higher incidence of AI-isms—we found best results with high. - Beast at knowledge work. Opus 4.8 is very good at general knowledge work tasks like report creation, research and more. It produced the best PowerPoint one-shot we've ever seen on our deck generation benchmark. - Emotionally intelligent, willing to question the frame. I've also found it to be quite good at talking through psychological or interpersonal issues. It has a high EQ, and it's also good at not glazing and helping to expand your perspective. Its thought process feels extremely rich and dynamic. THE BAD: These days a model is only as good as its harness, and Codex is still a far superior harness to the Claude Desktop app. This has kept me using Codex + GPT-5.5 as my daily driver, but I am flipping back and forth a lot more between Codex and Claude. Anthropic is back baby! Read the rest on Every 🪨:show more

Claude Code's effort parameter is something you need to... keep in mind before starting any task It's not just about picking the right model anymore (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus). Now you also need to think about which effort level to use before each task. One tip I always go back to: when Opus can't solve a problem, just adding ultrathink makes things click, it's almost magic. We wrote a post at Hedgineer benchmarking each effort level by cost and time Read it here:show more

Simplicity is at the heart of great software. This... is one of the reasons why Claude Code has been sticky for me. As a builder, I love planning and brainstorming, and this is now a key focus of Claude Code. I use Shift + Tab a lot to cycle between brainstorming, planning, and execution. This functionality provides the appropriate interface for me to either be very involved or less involved as I please. This works particularly well when building out new and complex features or entire new projects. This saves a huge amount of time. It allows me to tune Claude Code to execute and build more effectively. It also builds a loop of trust, and I often (surprisingly) find Claude Code asking for clarifications when it's confused. Coding agents don't normally do that. I have shared before on the power of brainstorming with AI for longer times. Try it and you will not be disappointed. Vibe coding is fun, but pair it with intentional development cycles, and you watch how far you can take a project with coding agents today.show more

Fable 5 comes back！It can now build playable game... prototypes. I think it is actually a signal for where AI coding is going. Making a game is not just “write some code.” Even a small browser game needs: game loop；character movement；collision logic；scoring system；UI states；physics tuning；visual feedback；bug fixing；playtesting This is why game prototyping is a great test for AI models. A model cannot fake it with a pretty answer. Either the game runs, or it does not. What impressed me about Fable 5 is that it is useful for the messy middle: turning an idea into mechanics, turning mechanics into code, debugging broken interactions, and iterating until the prototype feels playable. But here is the practical part: I would not use the strongest model for every step. For game building, I would split the workflow: 1. Fable 5 for game design + architecture 2. a fast coding model for routine implementation 3. a vision-capable model for screenshot/UI feedback 4. a cheaper model for docs, test cases, and small fixes 5. fallback when latency, cost, or output quality becomes a problem That is the real AI coding stack. Not “one magic model does everything.” More like: the right model, for the right task, at the right cost, with fallback when things break. This is why I’ve been looking at ZenMux ZenMux. ZenMux gives developers one gateway to access multiple leading AI models, with OpenAI / Anthropic / Google Vertex compatible APIs, cost tracking, quality benchmarks, auto-routing, and compensation when output quality, latency, or throughput falls short. If AI can now make games, the next question is not just “which model is strongest?” It is:how do we manage the whole model workflow Fable 5 shows the creative ceiling. ZenMux is closer to the infrastructure layer you need when AI coding becomes a real production habit.show more

Claude Code's new dynamic workflow is the real deal.... 🤖 Why it matters: It's not just a chain of prompts — it's an autonomous agent swarm. 1. Set model to Opus 4.8 + reasoning effort /ultracode 2. Claude detects complexity, writes orchestration script on the fly 3. Spawns a parallel fleet of coordinated subagents Operator takeaway: This is the first time I've seen an agent actually decompose and delegate autonomously without a rigid framework. Have you tried it yet? 🚀show more

1/3 🤖 Meet AgentOS: A Token-efficient, Microkernel AI agent... with on-device model routing across CLI, Web UI, and chat. A local router reads every message on your device and sends it to the cheapest model that can still do the job well. You stop overpaying for AI. ⚡ What makes it stand out: ■ Smart on-device model routing across 20+ providers ( bankrbot LLM Gateway, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, and more). ■ Persistent local memory that survives restarts. ■ A layered security sandbox (Standard, Strict, Locked). ■ 37 built-in skills plus MCP, loaded only when a task needs them, and more ■ One unified gateway for CLI, Web UI, Slack, Telegram, Discord, and more Remember this: AgentOS has been integrated with the Bankr LLM Gateway since day one. That means any Bankr user with Bankr API key can start using AgentOS in minutes. Let the router cook.show more

MiniMax M3 just dropped — their first natively multimodal... model. So I ran it through my form-filling test. (The model has to place each element at the right pixel position on a blank form image, not type into a field.) Verdict: it got everything on the paper. > Name, DOB, ID, gender, marital status, nationality, email, phone, address, postal code, all there. > Best character spacing I've seen yet: it actually calculates the gap between each character, clean across the DOB and number boxes > A few fields slightly misaligned, but every piece of data made it onto the form The reasoning chain is the interesting part: it does the easy fields first, then works into the tight one-char-per-box fields, reasoning through y-coordinates, baselines, and label clearance in obsessive detail. The cost: 40:33 and 126.7k output tokens. That's a long think — but it's MiniMax's first multimodal model, and it nailed the content.show more

Devin for Terminal is a local agent that works... with all frontier models, including Opus 4.7, GPT 5.5, and SWE-1.6. You can switch model mid-session, or handoff to Devin in the cloud.show more

THIS GUY BOUGHT A $31 TOY DRONE AND TURNED... CLAUDE OPUS 4.8 INTO ITS ENGINEER he plugged it into a laptop, explained the control logic in plain english and let Claude build the flight interface by the end of the session it had calibration, live controls and a browser cockpit moving the drone in real time most people will use Opus 4.8 to save 12 minutes on emails. he used it to turn cheap plastic into a working demo the crazy part isn’t the drone. it’s that the bottleneck moved from writing code to describing exactly what you want built while everyone debates benchmarks, someone with a $31 gadget and one afternoon is already shipping hardware demosshow more

I tested Kimi K3 vs Claude Opus 4.8 Same... prompt, an armory bay with lighting, props, and detail. Top is Kimi K3, bottom is Opus 4.8. It's not even close. Kimi K3 built a full scene with textures, proper lighting, ammo crates, weapon racks, working detail everywhere. Opus 4.8 gave me a near empty room with a couple of floating tables. No doubt it beats Opus 4.8. Kimi K3 is Fable 5 level, and it's clearly better than GPT-5.6 Sol at 3D and games. An open weight model just matched the best closed models on the market. Let that sink in.show more

PEOPLE ARE BURNING THROUGH THEIR TOKENS IN 30 MINUTES... AND BLAMING CLAUDE The problem isn’t with the model. The problem is how they’re using it A simple formatting question they set Max effort The 40th message in the chat the model re-reads the entire history from the beginning Every single time. Using your tokens Low effort costs 10 times less than Max Just get into the habit of routing tasks by level and your limit won’t run out by noon Tokens don’t disappear. You’re just paying for unnecessary processingshow more

SpaceXai just made grok 4.5 FREE in your coding... agent starting today it's xAI's new coding model. 500k context. built for long agent sessions. no card. what you get for $0: -83.3% on terminal-bench 2.1 -64.7% on swe-bench pro - 4.2x more efficient than Opus 4.8 -500k context for big repos -$2/M in, $6/M out once it goes paid what this replaces: -Claude Opus 4.8: $15/M in, $75/M out -SuperGrok: $30-50/mo all for $0 how to set it up (2 min): >curl -fsSL | bash > grok → localhost:8000/v1 > point hermes / aider / opencode / cline to it > model: grok-4.5 Or API key at - base url Works in Hermes, Aider, OpenCode, Cline, Claude Code, and any OpenAI-compatible tool. Important: Free for a limited time. EU waits till mid-July. Rate limits apply. bookmark this before the free window closesshow more

34,547 ELEMENTS. 34 WARNINGS. 7 DUPLICATE ELEMENTS REVIT'S OWN... SCHEDULE NEVER CAUGHT. One prompt, one live Revit model, one Claude session through the MCP connection. No plugins, no exported schedules to reformat by hand. Claude walked the model tree: rooms, families, sheets, every open warning, cross-checked counts against each other, and came back with a full audit. Top flag: three fire-rated doors modeled without a fire rating parameter. The rest ranked below it, from code-adjacent to cosmetic. Still the read-only side of Revit's official MCP server, the part Autodesk shipped first, on purpose. Write access is on their own roadmap, through a separate server built specifically for it. Nothing here moved a single element. The model just got properly looked at, faster than a manual QA pass usually runs.show more

This free model just beat every closed-source AI on... coding benchmarks. Open weights. 6x cheaper than Opus. The labs don't want you to know it exists. > GLM-5.2 from Zai just topped Code Arena - the first open-weights model to ever hold the #1 coding spot. Not a leaked weight, not a fine-tune. A fully open model beating GPT and Claude on their own turf. It's live on Hugging Face Inference API right now. 5 providers: Novita, Together AI, Fireworks, Deepinfra, Zai. OpenAI-compatible client. → Go to huggingface(.)co → grab HF_TOKEN from account settings → plug into any OpenAI-compatible client 6x cheaper than Opus. Companies bleeding on AI bills are already routing to this for orchestration, caching, and token optimization. The smart money moved before the headline dropped. > Now you know. huggingface(.)co/zai-org/GLM-5.2 Bookmark this before everyone else figures it out.show more

1/ Gemini 2.5 is here, and it’s our most... intelligent AI model ever. Our first 2.5 model, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is a state-of-the-art thinking model, leading in a wide range of benchmarks – with impressive improvements in enhanced reasoning and coding and now #1 on Arena by a significant margin. With a model this intelligent, we wanted to get it to people as quickly as possible. Find it on Google AI Studio and in the Google Gemini for Gemini Advanced users now – and in Vertex in the coming weeks. This is the start of a new era of thinking models – and we can’t wait to see where things go from here.show more