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Re: Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?

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I only use Anthropic models. Haven't touched GPT for a long time after I found myself swearing at them.

Opus 4.7, or 4.6 where it's still available at work: For spec'ing up projects or changes. The 15x multiplyer on Copilot means I rarely do this.

Sonnet 4.6 everywhere else. It rarely fails me.

Re: Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?

#22

1. gpt-5.5-medium for most demanding coding tasks. 2. gpt-5.3-codex-medium for genrally most of the other coding tasks. 3. deepseek-v4-flash for heavy agentic research/loops (non-coding related). 4. mimo-v2.5-pro for crunching/summarizing large texts. 5. gemini-3.1-flash-lite for image understanding. 6. opus-4.7 very occasionally when gpt-5.5 fails, or vice-versa, and sonnet-4.6 when codex-5.3 fails. 7. deepseek-v4-p…

Just curious what constitutes a 'demanding' coding task for you.
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