Setting a Custom Price for a Model in AgentsView
Simon Willison's Weblog4 days agoTutorialAgentsView, built by Wes McKinney, visualizes token usage and costs across local coding agents. When Claude Fable 5 launched without being listed in AgentsView's pricing database, Simon Willison used Fable itself to reverse-engineer the tool and find a recipe for setting custom prices. He also shared a treemap showing over $83 in single-day Fable 5 spending and $516 saved via prompt caching.
Claude Opus 4.8: "a modest but tangible improvement"
Simon Willison's Weblog16 days agoReleaseAnthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8, and Simon Willison highlights the unusually restrained release language: a “modest but tangible improvement.” The model keeps most Opus 4.7 pricing and specs, while evaluations suggest it is more likely to flag uncertainty and less likely to ignore flaws in code it wrote. Developer-relevant changes include mid-conversation system messages and a lower prompt-cache minimum of 1,024 tokens.
DeepSeek Reasonix: Native Coding Agent Focused on Caching and Low Cost
Hacker News (AI keywords)21 days agoNew ToolThe source title points to DeepSeek Reasonix, described as a native coding agent for the DeepSeek ecosystem. Its stated emphasis is high caching and low cost, suggesting a design aimed at reducing repeated inference expense during coding workflows. With no article body available, details such as features, benchmarks, pricing, supported IDEs, licensing, or availability cannot be confirmed.