Ask HN: What LLM are you using?

#1

Post by daytonflyers » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 4:32 PM UTC

Is there a list of best llm by use case?

Re: Ask HN: What LLM are you using?

#2

Post by majorchord » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

Qwen3.8-27B.

The knowledge and accuracy for its size is mind-boggling, especially for something I can run on my existing desktop from 2022, away from prying eyes.

Re: Ask HN: What LLM are you using?

#3

Post by ma2kx » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

Since I bought early this year out of curiosity the z.AI pro plan for $30 / month its mainly glm-5.2. I prefer it over 5.3 and 5.3-flash because it feels more verbose and answers questions more detailed, where the newer ones feel to me benchmaxxed.

Sometimes I try other models but they always feel less concise and tend to not as strictly respect the instructions. Maybe the the top frontier models from openai / anthropic would not feel under this category but they are way to expensive on openrouter compared to my coding plan.

Re: Ask HN: What LLM are you using?

#4

Post by daytonflyers » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC

ma2kx wrote: post #3

Since I bought early this year out of curiosity the z.AI pro plan for $30 / month its mainly glm-5.2. I prefer it over 5.3 and 5.3-flash because it feels more verbose and answers questions more detailed, where the newer ones feel to me benchmaxxed. Sometimes I try other models but they always feel less concise and tend to not as strictly respect the instructions. Maybe the the top frontier models from openai / anthro…

thanks for sharing. I was not aware of z.AI models.