4 engineers on Hacker News describe using Claude Haiku first-hand: 4 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I have now settled on Haiku 5 for simpler things, it's nearly free while being really smart still”
endorse · personal · brabel · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried Haiku 5.5 and the most impressive thing about it to me was that it seemed not to overthink when it wasn't necessary”
endorse · personal · wyrdcurt · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I ported over my busiest app stage from openrouter/gemini to haiku, with openrouter acting as an overflow. $200 saved.”
endorse · production · schmookeeg · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work we use haiku 4.5 for a handful of latency sensitive tasks that are fairly simple. It performs well.”
endorse · production · d1l · 2026-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?