Opus at $25/M tokens, Haiku at $5. 10 practical levers to reduce your consumption by 60 to 90% across all AI agents.
Anthropic files its S-1 on June 1, launches Fable 5 on June 9, and the US government shuts it all down on June 12. 12 days that expose the real risk of depending on American AI.
Opus 4.7 dropped on April 16. Most devs use it exactly like Sonnet. Effort mode, cache, vision, instruction following, routing: 5 specific settings, with use cases and pitfalls.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 today. Box cut AI costs by 30%, XBOW's penetration testing jumped from 54% to 98.5%, and the benchmark table publicly shows a better model you can't access yet.
Since February, developers have been saying Claude Opus 4.6 got worse. I went back through the tweets, GitHub issues, and Anthropic replies to understand what actually happened.
€20 in revenue over a year, €40/month in infrastructure. I'm shutting down Livate. Here are the raw numbers, the reasons, and what I'm building next.
