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You cannot afford the SOTA.
Why is that? The $200 per month subscription comes with a ton of usage. Opus 4.6 is available on the $20 plan too
A subscription for coding - no thanks.
$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks
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Opus 4.5 ~= Opus 4.6 high. Opus 4.5 was nerfed just before or after the release of 4.6.
The models don’t change.
I think the conspiracy theories are silly, but equally I think pretending these black boxes are completely stable once they're released is incorrect as well.
Re: $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks
#133I’d encourage devs to use MiniMax, Kimi, etc for real world tasks that require intelligence. The down sides emerge pretty fast: much higher reasoning token use, slower outputs, and degradation that is palpable. Sadly, you do get what you pay for right now. However that doesn’t prevent you from saving tons through smart model routing, being smart about reasoning budgets, and using max output tokens wisely. And optimiz…
Yup, they do quite poorly on random non-coding tasks: https://aibenchy.com/compare/minimax-minimax-m2-7-medium/moo...
GLM 5 here is significantly better than GPT-5.4
Re: $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks
#134Claude Code has been bleh or meh at best in my experience. There's so many posts on HN fawning about it lately that it could only be a guerrilla marketing campaign.
"I don't get it. Everyone else is wrong."
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> The $200 per month subscription comes with a ton of usage. $200 dollars + VAT is half of my rent. I know HN is not a good place to rant on this subject, but I'm often flabbergasted about the number of people here that lives in a bubble with regard to the price of tech. Or just prices in general. I remember someone who said a few years ago (I'm paraphrasing): "You could just use one of the empty room in your house!"…
>I'm often flabbergasted about the number of people here that lives in a bubble with regard to the price of tech Sorry, no. You live in the bubble, the people you think are living in a bubble are actually doing the very opposite and taking advantage of the lack of bubbles in our globally connected world. Today, basically anyone can sell any bullshit to billions of people around the world. We’ve never lived in less of…
I guess all those people who live in not-SF just can't be bothered to succeed!
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The models don’t change.
They do. I'm currently seeing a degradation on Opus 4.6 on tasks it could do without trouble a few months back. Obvious I'm a sample of n=1, but I'm also convinced a new model is around the corner and they preemptively nerf their current model so people notice the "improvement".
Make that 2, I told my friends yesterday "Opus got dumb, new model must be coming".
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Why is that? The $200 per month subscription comes with a ton of usage. Opus 4.6 is available on the $20 plan too
> The $200 per month subscription comes with a ton of usage. $200 dollars + VAT is half of my rent. I know HN is not a good place to rant on this subject, but I'm often flabbergasted about the number of people here that lives in a bubble with regard to the price of tech. Or just prices in general. I remember someone who said a few years ago (I'm paraphrasing): "You could just use one of the empty room in your house!"…
For me I pass the token costs off to my clients. Not everyone is a hobbyist burning their own cash on personal projects
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is that? The $200 per month subscription comes with a ton of usage. Opus 4.6 is available on the $20 plan too
> The $200 per month subscription comes with a ton of usage. $200 dollars + VAT is half of my rent. I know HN is not a good place to rant on this subject, but I'm often flabbergasted about the number of people here that lives in a bubble with regard to the price of tech. Or just prices in general. I remember someone who said a few years ago (I'm paraphrasing): "You could just use one of the empty room in your house!"…
Work pays.