Claude Opus 4.6 • Hacker News Board

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by avaer » Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

GenerocUsername wrote: post #11

This is huge. It only came out 8 minutes ago but I was already able to bootstrap a 12k per month revenue SaaS startup!

Rest assured that when/if this becomes possible, the model will not be available to you. Why would big AI leave that kind of money on the table?

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

mcphage wrote: post #27

re-thc wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not 12M? ... or 12B?

It's probably valued at 1.2B, at least

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Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by apetresc » Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #12

Is Opus 4.6 available for Claude Code immediately? Curious how long it typically takes for a new model to become available in Cursor?

I literally came to HN to check if a thread was already up because I noticed my CC instance suddenly said "Opus 4.6".

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by tomtomistaken » Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #12

Is Opus 4.6 available for Claude Code immediately? Curious how long it typically takes for a new model to become available in Cursor?

Yes, it's set to the default model.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by heraldgeezer » Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

I love Claude but use the free version so would love a Sonnet & Haiku update :)

I mainly use Haiku to save on tokens...

Also dont use CC but I use the chatbot site or app... Claude is just much better than GPT even in conversations. Straight to the point. No cringe emoji lists.

When Claude runs out I switch to Mistral Le Chat, also just the site or app. Or duck.ai has Haiku 3.5 in Free version.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by nprz » Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

m-hodges wrote: post #10

> In Claude Code, you can now assemble agent teams to work on tasks together.

I was just reading about Steve Yegge's Gas Town[0], it sounds like agent orchestration is now integrated into Claude Code?

[0]https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by lukebechtel » Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

> Context compaction (beta).

> Long-running conversations and agentic tasks often hit the context window. Context compaction automatically summarizes and replaces older context when the conversation approaches a configurable threshold, letting Claude perform longer tasks without hitting limits.

Not having to hand roll this would be incredible. One of the best Claude code features tbh.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by jsheard » Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

blibble wrote: post #17

> We build Claude with Claude. Our engineers write code with Claude Code every day well that explains quite a bit

CC has >6000 open issues, despite their bot auto-culling them after 60 days of inactivity. It was ~5800 when I looked just a few days ago so they seem to be accelerating towards some kind of bug singularity.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by guluarte » Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

GenerocUsername wrote: post #11

This is huge. It only came out 8 minutes ago but I was already able to bootstrap a 12k per month revenue SaaS startup!

Anthropic really said here's the smartest model ever built and then lobotomized it 8 minutes after launch. Classic.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by simonw » Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

The bicycle frame is a bit wonky but the pelican itself is great: https://gist.github.com/simonw/a6806ce41b4c721e240a4548ecdbe...