If you give it another try, my goto right now is Sonnet 4 Thinking. There's a pretty massive difference in intelligence by switching from just plain 4 to 4 Thinking. It's still pretty fast, and I think hits the right balance between speed and useful intelligence.

However, at least in my experience, nothing beats o3 for raw intelligence. It's a little too slow to use as the daily driver though.

It's kind of fun seeing the models all have their various pros and cons.

> To be fair though, a big part of the issue for me is that having not done the work or properly thought through how a project is structured and how the code works, it comes back to bite later. A better model doesn't change this.

Yes, even as I start to leverage the tools more, I try to double down on my own understanding of the problem being solved, at least at a high level. Need to make sure you don't lose the plot yourself.