There are a lot of AI model announcements these days, but every now and then one lands that feels immediately practical. Claude Haiku 5.5 is one of those releases. Anthropic’s marketing says it’s their "cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model ever." New model, now with extra adjectives. But the numbers behind the press release […]
In my Claude Opus 5.5 for C# developers post I called Opus 5.5 from my own code: the Anthropic.Foundry SDK, Entra ID, and the effort parameter. This time the code calling Opus 5.5 isn’t mine. It’s Claude Code, running in my terminal and in VS Code, pointed at my Foundry resource. Microsoft already has a […]
Anthropic’s newest model, Claude Opus 5.5, just landed — meaning if you’re already building with Claude, you can call Anthropic’s most capable coding-and-reasoning model with a resource API key. Here’s what’s actually new, and how it looks from C#. What Actually Shipped A few facts worth knowing before you touch any code: 40% cheaper than […]
There are a lot of AI model announcements these days, but every now and then one lands that feels immediately practical for real engineering work. Claude Opus 4.8 showing up in Microsoft Foundry feels like one of those releases. Microsoft is positioning Claude Opus 4.8 around coding, agentic workflows, and deeper reasoning for enterprise scenarios, […]


