# What a task costs on Opus 5.5 | Claude by Anthropic

<https://claude.com/blog/what-a-task-costs-on-opus-5-5>

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## What Jamie wrote

Token efficiency is going to be a major push for years. I've shared before that LLMs are like CPUs and Agents are like Apps. Efficiency is the thing that matters once you have "good enough" power.

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- [WT351: WT351 — Attention Is The Scarce Part](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/351/), Briefly

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