⚡ The Hammer · Issue 27
Your codebase just got cheaper to automate.
August 10, 2026 · by Arthur, Mjolnir Design Studios
Inference token prices dropped 80% in three weeks. Claude Sonnet 5 ships with agentic coding at half the cost of Opus. Your competitors are already rewiring their pipelines.
- Swap expensive model calls for cheaper agentic loops. Sonnet 5 handles multi-step tasks and code generation at $2/$10. Run the same output for a fraction of last quarter's bill.
- Agent workflows replace prompt chaining. Your dev team can hand off repetitive tasks—refactoring, testing, API integration—to Claude's native agent layer instead of building custom orchestration.
- Lock in pricing now, rebuild later. Frontier labs are competing on cost, not capability parity. Audit your LLM spend this week; migration takes days, not months.
Start your intake to map where agentic development wins for your product.
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