Now: Fable 5.1 medium effort for heavy computational (evolutionary) biology and everything else on the $100/mo max plan. It's great.
6mo from now: deepseek assuming the US AI industry insists on self-pwning.
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#112Uncensored Qwen 3.8 27B has been pretty impressive to run locally.
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#115GLM5.3 - I'm on one of the ancient plans, meaning basically unlimited. ...and then sprinkle in some other models when i think a second opinion will help
same here. GLM-5.3-flash is my current daily runner for coding and reviews, and Deepseek-v4 when a second opinion seems beneficial.
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#116I used to main Claude, but I can't stand how it writes. I feel like I'm wasting too much time trying to decipher the output. Adding writing rules does not seem to work. Now I use GPT 5.6 Terra high fast mode, with Luna for everything else. I might consider using Sol for planning. I can't stand using Sol or smarter models for coding, because they will eventually try to rewrite everything in the codebase. I also don't…
We moved from Gemini to Claude recently, and while I absolutely love Claude's coding capabilities, I often find myself extremely overwhelmed whenever I ask Claude to explain something to me, whereas that was a breeze with Gemini Pro models.
It generates pages for what could be explained in 1-2 paragraphs.
I use to love using Gemini CLI to have Gemini explain a module for me before I dive into the code and point out specific points of interest, but I can't do that with Claude Code without feeling overwhelmed and starting to heavily procrastinate
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#117Astra xhigh - for specs, analysis. Sol xhigh - for orchestration and implementation in complicated cases. Terra, Luna - for implementation in simple routine cases.
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#118Gpt 5.6, it understands me perfectly and is able to always do what i tell it to the point
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#119Deepseek 4 flash + Claude OPUS 5
OPUS for planning, scanning Deepseek for coding ( cheaper )
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#120I have been using Grok models lately, just because I am on the cursor subscription. I got the cursor subscription because I liked it's cloud coding environment better than the others.
But I am not liking them much. And they are extremely slow as well.