I’ll continue to use the last great reasonably affordable duo from Anthropic: Opus 4.6 for planning and Sonnet 4.6 for implementation.
Claude Sonnet 5
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#512Earlier quoted context omitted.
As always, note: faster than GLM-5.2 doesn't mean too much, as GLM-5.2 is served by different providers, so the inference speed can vary drastically between providers or over time.
What’s everyone favorite GLM provider? z.ai doesnt always have the most reliable AI but I don’t mind the party seeing my trade secrets and thoughts compared to an American corporation + the party seeing my trade secrets and thoughts. So thats not a functional difference to me, and the Chinese one won’t reply to subpoenas so thats a value add tbh So I’ll consider all, fastest tokens/sec wins
> the Chinese one won’t reply to subpoenas so thats a value add tbh
That's not something that's definite. They are not quite like the Russians. A lot of the governments in Asia are overly pragmatic and will happily strong arm their companies to throw users under the bus for the sake of a trade deal. There's a reason why Snowden ran to the Russians and not China.
Also, if they have any subsidiaries in the US, they may not have a choice in the matter.
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#513It looks good. Now waiting for Opus 5.
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#514The cost per task chart is telling me that I should _never_ use Sonnet 5 above medium effort level - Opus always performs better for a given cost. So I guess the takeaway is that if Sonnet 5 medium isn't good enough for you, switch models, not effort levels.
They're actively trying to use lobbying power to make open weight models illegal. So I'm just not going to use their services at all anymore. I don't think they're a net gain if you're a skilled senior, and the hidden cost in terms of technical debt and skill atrophy is just being swept under the rug. I'll be okay without their bullshit generator.
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#515If only the agentic model supported the most popular agents like Hermes and OpenClaw...
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#516The cost per task chart is telling me that I should _never_ use Sonnet 5 above medium effort level - Opus always performs better for a given cost. So I guess the takeaway is that if Sonnet 5 medium isn't good enough for you, switch models, not effort levels.
While I appreciate, they publish this information, it's increasingly hard to keep track of it all. I've lost the mental model of how different models at different effort levels perform and what tasks they are good at. In practice, I tend to just use the default on Claude Code that works well enough. But I wonder to what degree other users really play around with these settings to optimize for their project.
It's really not that much. It's a bit hard to make sense of it not because it's hard to keep track of, but because they are being deceptive and opaque about what you're actually buying, and the thing you're paying for is different from one day to the next, as they fuck around with the parameters to boost subjective performance during a launch, then quietly degrade the service to cut costs.
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#517Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you should try an OpenAI model like GPT 5.5. It is better at following instructions and boundaries set during prompt. It feels like a more capable "agent assistant" than Claude models but without loss of intelligence. Most of my work involves "Agentic engineering" instead of fire-and-forget. I like to stay involved during the planning as well as review and ask a lot more questions from the agent than I've see…
I prefer GPT 5.5 to Opus but both are absurdly expensive token hogs, I can't afford to use either as my main model at $work with the monthly spend cap we have. I use Composer (since we use Cursor) or GPT 5.3-codex as my workhorse models and only break out the big guns when I have a genuinely difficult problem to solve. IMO somewhat weirdly 5.3-codex might be the best overall coding model OpenAI have ever released. It…
Buy 5 accounts at 20usd each. It’s 100 and lasts decently on single threaded work
Re: Claude Sonnet 5
#518The cost per task chart is telling me that I should _never_ use Sonnet 5 above medium effort level - Opus always performs better for a given cost. So I guess the takeaway is that if Sonnet 5 medium isn't good enough for you, switch models, not effort levels.
While I appreciate, they publish this information, it's increasingly hard to keep track of it all. I've lost the mental model of how different models at different effort levels perform and what tasks they are good at. In practice, I tend to just use the default on Claude Code that works well enough. But I wonder to what degree other users really play around with these settings to optimize for their project.
I also ended up using max effort/reasoning for both coding and general chat. They don't spend too much extra time on simple tasks these days.
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#519Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some napkin math -- total global labor compensation is about 50% of the GDP, which puts it in the USD 50 - 60 Trillion range: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-share-of-gdp This source claims that knowledge workers alone (probably because they are paid much more) account for 35 - 50 Trillion of that: https://github.com/danielmiessler/Substrate/blob/main/Data/K... If LLMs can boost their productivity even by an…
You’re trying to apply value based pricing (infinite margin upside) to a commodity. Pre-bubble pricing: $1400 gets a 128GiB iGPU optimized for inference. Glm and kimi need 800-1000GiB. Call it 1TiB. The $1400 boxes could be ganged into sets of 4-8, with a switch. Call the switch $1000. Each box has a TDP of 250W. 8 x 250/120V = 16.666A, or one household circuit in the US, so no new power infrastructure is needed. $14…
Right, that number is more of an estimate of the value proposition of the entire AI industry rather than projections of revenue or valuations... it's essentially an estimate on how much the market could theoretically bear. Whether the companies can capture that value is, to your point, rightly a different question.
I do think open weight and other competitor models, especially with better harnesses, will play a significant role in the equation and will result in less concentration in the market. However, I do also think the big AI companies will capture a lot of that value. Partially for the same reasons that the cloud industry has been growing like gangbusters, even pre-AI, despite on-prem being much cheaper: companies will outsource anything that is not deemed a "core competency" for their business.
A lot of the problems you mentioned will be relegated to the consumer market and won't apply to enterprise contracts -- which is where the real money is.
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#520The cost per task chart is telling me that I should _never_ use Sonnet 5 above medium effort level - Opus always performs better for a given cost. So I guess the takeaway is that if Sonnet 5 medium isn't good enough for you, switch models, not effort levels.
They're actively trying to use lobbying power to make open weight models illegal. So I'm just not going to use their services at all anymore. I don't think they're a net gain if you're a skilled senior, and the hidden cost in terms of technical debt and skill atrophy is just being swept under the rug. I'll be okay without their bullshit generator.
> They're actively trying to use lobbying power to make open weight models illegal.
What is your evidence?