AI coding agents
Claude Opus 5.5 Pricing: What Anthropic’s 40% Cost Claim Means
Claude Opus 5.5 has lower token rates than Opus 5, but the 40% typical-workload cost estimate is not a blanket discount. Cache reuse, token consumption, effort, speed mode, retries, and safeguard routing shape the actual API cost per accepted result.
Kiro’s Supervised Diff Was Not a Firewall. AWS Says Upgrade and Rotate Credentials.
AWS says older Kiro IDE versions could expose workspace data through an agent-written setting before a pending diff was resolved. Here is who should upgrade and rotate credentials.
Google Cloud Gives Coding Agents a Portable Plugin—With IAM Guardrails Attached
Google has packaged Cloud knowledge and actions for coding agents. The practical benefit is less hand-wired setup; the operational risk is treating a plugin install as proof of least privilege, current documentation or a traceable infrastructure change.