The Computer-Use Agent Nobody’s Talking About: Haiku 4.5
Here's the secret about Computer-Use-Agents that no one is talking about: They are cheaper and faster than ever before, but not what you think. You see, most people are using Sonnet 4.5, Gemini, and OpenAI for computer-use models. But absolutely nobody is talking about Claude Haiku 4.5, which was a smaller, lighter computer-used model that was quietly released a couple weeks after their latest Sonnet 4.5 model. What does this mean for computer use? Well, Haiku 4.5 performs just as well as Sonnet 4.5 at most tasks, and it's roughly 66% faster and only 33% of the cost of Sonnet 4.5. I just swapped Sonnet 4.5 out with Haiku 4.5 on all of my agents and found that Haiku not only finished the workflows much faster, but also at a MUCH lower cost! This is what I mean when I say that Virtual Assistants will be replaced by Computer-Use-Agents. A $4/hour VA from the Philippines is still too expensive when a Computer-Use-Agent can work 24/7 at no cost and do a better job at following instructions than any human ever could. As humans, we've always been limited by the amount of time that we can work in a day. But with AI, Computer-Use-Agents, this no longer becomes the constraint, and the ultimate highest form of leverage is unlocked for gross economic productivity. As with any sort of valuable thing in the world, when the time to deliver a product or service is no longer the constraint, that thing becomes infinitely valuable. Think of Amazon and how they went from one-week delivery to 5-day to 3-day to 1-day to same-day to same-hour delivery. Infinitely valuable business. Fast beats free. When you can have work that is done fast and free, you have something that changes the world forever. Computer-Use-Agents will do exactly that.