Opus 5.5, Dots and Jev build a trading agent in 55 minutes for $4.92
Three models split the work on a six-layer agent that passed 221 of 240 test cases (92%) at a cost of $4.92, against an agency quote of $120,000.
OPUS 5.5 + DOTS + JEV backtested 1,840 trades over four years in one hour... three models built one agent in 55 minutes for $4.92, and an agency would quote the same scope at $120,000 write → feed → test → fence → ship Dario's Sonnet 5.5 writes the agent itself: the policy, the prompts and six tool integrations Sam Altman's OpenAI Dots bring the data, the retrieval and 240 test cases Jev fences it, caps it and ships it the agent goes up in six layers, policy first and deploy last, and no layer starts before the one under it exists then all 240 cases run through it once. 221 pass, 19 fail, 92% against a bar of 90% the 240 cases and the 90% bar were written before the build, and the 19 failures are listed in the file the quote is 800 hours at $150, so $120,000. policy and prompts alone are 120 hours, $18,000 the same six parts took 1.14M tokens and $4.92 nobody has paid that $120,000 yet, it's what someone would charge to build it and keeping the agent true costs $59,160 a year, $37,440 of that is a human reading 270 tickets a week six parts, 55 minutes, $4.92, quoted at $120,000 ↓
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