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AI tools are already changing game modification even before generative games arrive: Opus 5.5 helped decompile and repackage games, enable ports across hardware, and create unusual mashups. Tim Sweeney praised a hobbyist's port of his first PC game to NES as work that would once have required substantial manual effort.
On Agent’s Last Exam, Tera approached Opus 5.5’s score with three times the token efficiency, completing the benchmark at one-ninth the price; its advantage did not generalize to every benchmark, especially agentic coding.
Gavin Baker argued that revenue and margins can rise even as token prices fall if GPU throughput grows enough; Thomas Tunguz cited Opus 4.5’s November 2025 launch, after which quarterly revenue growth accelerated from 48% to 132%.
Moonshot’s benchmarks put K3.1 Pro near Opus 5.5 on agentic work and coding, while its lower token prices and cost per task strengthen the case for adoption. Independent testing also placed it among the strongest available models.
OpenAI’s price cuts helped it gain coding share from Anthropic at Rippling, but Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 release drove a sharp rise in usage and business spending. The host said Anthropic’s rumored Fable 5.5 and its Duet personal agent could strengthen its position before the IPO.
The host spends most AI work time thinking through strategy and externalizing ideas in notes and conversations. He says roughly 60% of his AI sessions serve that purpose, and favors Opus 5.5 for its ability to challenge ideas without reflexive agreement.
The host uses Astra and Opus about equally for research tied to public content, including the AI Daily Brief and his wife’s true-crime podcast, Love Murder. For important topics, he has each model review the other’s research to catch sourcing and emphasis problems.
For data analysis, the host usually works with Astra inside Codex. Claude Code with Opus 5.5 is his default building setup, while Codex is useful for visually oriented projects that need native access to image generation.
For How We Got Here, the host uses Claude and Atlas to develop ideas and research, then asks Claude to structure the argument. Opus 5.5 drafts a companion essay from the transcript and research; the host rewrites about half before using Codex and GPT Image to build its visual presentation.