Honest, non-confrontational, non-passive aggressive question: Have you used any of the latest models in the last 6 months to do coding? Or frankly, in the last year?

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satvikpendem 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

They note in another comment they don't even use search engines so I don't think they're the right person to ask regarding frontier models.

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darth_aardvark 2 days ago | parent [-]

I'd ask them what tools they do use, but I doubt they'll see my comment; I'll see if I can mail it to them.

	▲	bandrami 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		(Why wouldn't I see your comment?) I just don't use the web much anymore because the experience has degraded so much over the past several years and it has become decreasingly useful at work as well. I do sometimes need to search for a document and find Kagi pretty good for that, but the old way of using a search engine to kind of explore and discover stuff just isn't viable anymore, unfortunately. I administer software for a living so I read a lot of documentation of that software but it comes with the software so I don't ever really need to search for it; I also read and participate in some forums and us the relevant IRC channels.

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bigstrat2003 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I have. And the people who say "use a frontier" model are full of it. The frontier models aren't any better than the free ones.

	▲	satvikpendem 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		What are you defining as free versus frontier, and for what purpose? For coding there is a big difference between Opus and GPT 5.3/4 versus Sonnet and other models such as open weight ones.