Not OP, but I feel the same way. Cost is just one of the factor. I'm used to Claude Code UX, my CLAUDE.md works well with my workflow too. Unless there's any significant improvement, changing to new models every few months is going to hurt me more.

I think a big part of the switching cost is the cost of learning a different model's nuances. Having good intuition for what works/doesn't, how to write effective prompts, etc.

Maybe someday future models will all behave similarly given the same prompt, but we're not quite there yet

Because some people are restricted by company policy to only use providers with which they have a legally binding agreement to not use their chats as training data.

This has been my experience exactly. Even over just the last few weeks I’ve noticed a dramatic drop in having to undo what the agents have done.

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If Opus is one-size-fits-all, then why Claude keeps the other series? (rethorical).

Opus and Sonnet are slower than Haiku. For lots of less sophisticated tasks, you benefit from the speed.

All vendors do this. You need smaller models that you can rapid-fire for lots of other reasons than vibe coding.

Personally, I actually use more smaller models than the sophisticated ones. Lots of small automations.

> What more do I need?

Much cheaper price and much faster token generation.

At least, that's what I need. I stopped using Anthropic because for their $20 a month offering, I get rate limited constantly, but for Gemini $20/month I've never even once hit a limit.

The internet has already tried this, for about a few decades. The garbage is in the corpus; it gets weighted as such

>a bunch of internet pages containing things that are blatantly wrong

So Reddit?

I’d imagine the AI companies have all the “pre AI internet” data they scraped very carefully catalogued.