Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?

What happened

This feels like another moment, like earlier this year, and the year prior. I am thrilled for my use cases in the applications that I build with CC, and for the LLM API usage that I sell. However, it honestly scares the crap out out of me. Is "the exponential" an actual thing?

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