New Versus Used

I’ve purchased 16 cars over my adult life.

Twelve of them have been used. I like to buy used cars. For me, I feel like I get most of the new stuff for that model at a better price. I miss out on the latest and greatest, of course, but that’s the tradeoff I make.

Opus-4.7 and GPT-5.5 just hit.

All of a sudden, I feel like 4.6 and 5.4 are useless.

But they’re not, of course. Just like used cars. 4.6 and 5.4 were new until about yesterday. They were serving me well.

And now they’re gonna get cheaper.

I suspect that new versus used models will be one of the variables we all use when token cost becomes the limiting factor.