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		jedberg 74 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Opus 4.5 Up until today, the general advice was use Opus for deep research, use Haiku for everything else. Given the reduction in cost here, does that rule of thumb no longer apply?

mudkipdev 74 days ago [–]

In my opinion Haiku is capable but there is no reason to use anything lower than Sonnet unless you are hitting usage limits

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