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Well put, and I think the problem extends beyond agentic systems to regular software. Someone in an organisation whips up a useful product, publishes it and is now on the hook for bug fixes, feature requests and operations. The maintenance cost is often much larger than the cost of building it now that producing an MVP is so easy.
That's a good point. If you are a small team with no slack in your workload and can't tolerate a change in pace then it just won't work. It sounds like this would be the case with or without AI, and really I'm trying to say that we shouldn't stop hiring juniors because of AI.
A large jump in performance for double the token cost compared to Opus 4.8. Potentially worth it for planning work, likely better to offload to a less expensive model when the hard decisions are made.