Claude Opus 4.6 Is Outstanding
However, it is very expensive
I have used Claude Opus 4.6 for a few more hours since my last note. It is outstanding for coding. I am using it to turn this SEC Edgar Watcher CLI tool into an application that we will host either at CEORater or as a standalone application.
My only issue with Opus 4.6 is that it is expensive. I have burned through my weekly token allotment in approximately 3 hours (I am on the low-end premium plan at $20/month).
Opus 4.6 has a superior context window / “memory” compared to Opus 4.5 - more memory and it makes better use of it. However, I have been throttled and will not be able to use 4.6 for the next 32 hours. Too bad, I was trucking along and would have had a Beta out to the world by Monday.
What Claude Opus 4.6 helped me build looked better than Bloomberg’s, Factset’s, and Reuters’ News functions. The only differences are the tool I built does not have a real-time SEC feed nor does it capture company press releases - only SEC filings.
Edgar Watcher will run SEC queries every 15, 30 or 60 minutes. I haven’t decided what the interval will be. I can price such a tool at $10/user/month. A real-time SEC feed would bump the price significantly. Perhaps two versions are in order?
