The most important thing about Sonnet 5.5 is that it's now the model that powers the free tier on claude.ai - so all of this stuff can be done by free users

ChatGPT's free tier is still GPT-5.6 Luna, which is a lot less capable

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A thread of early experiments with Claude Sonnet 5.5. A fall foliage simulator by @_re_pete, made with Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 5.5.