Honestly I barely care which model I am using and switch between them all. Usually in a 'this is terrble' to 'this is amazing' and back cycle.

What I definitely do care about is speed and efficiency. I recently canceled CoPilot to go back to Cursor, it's just so much faster for the inline code completion.

When I do have something difficult, I open four browser tabs and copy paste a big long promp into the free versions of the top models so I can take my time reasoning out their answers.

I use agents when I have a basic task that I can easily judge their output in code review.