Claude Sonnet 4.6 capability compression, AI pricing commoditization
The Capability Cliff Is Steeper Than Anyone Expected Three months. That’s how long it took for Anthropic’s best model to become the free tier. Claude Sonnet 4.6 just landed, and the headline number that stopped me cold is this: users now prefer it over Opus 4.5 for coding tasks 59% of the time. Opus 4.5…