Is it? The actual SOTA are not amazing at coding, so at least for me there is absolutely no reason to optimize on price at the moment. If I am going to use an LLM for coding it makes little sense to settle for a worse coder.

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gunalx 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I dunno. Even pretty weak models can be decently performant, and 9/10 the performance for 1/10 the price means 10x the output, and for a lot of stuff that quality difference dosent really matter. Considering even sota models are trash, slightly worse dosent really make that much difference.

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fastball 15 hours ago | parent [-]

> SOTA models are "trash"

> this model is worse (but cheaper)

> use it to output 10x the amount of trashier trash

You've lost me.

	▲	gunalx 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fair. Mostly the argument is, if all you need is to iterate on output to refine it, you get 10x the iterations, while lesser quality, its still a aspect to consider. But yes, why bother eine coding when they do make so many mistakes.