Sonnet 5 Migration: Measure the Whole Task Before Changing the Model ID
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I would treat a move from Sonnet 4.6 to Sonnet 5 as a routing experiment, not a dependency bump. The advertised token price is only one input. Adaptive thinking, a different tokenizer, cache behavior, and rejected request parameters can all change the production result. The question I care about is…
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- 2026-09-21 02:30 · DEV Community — AI
Sonnet 5 Migration: Measure the Whole Task Before Changing the Model ID