It's interesting. 95% of time you don't need the extra 5% rigor that frontier models provide to you compared to the 10-100x cheaper Chinese equivalents.

The remaining 5% of time you get a big boost for your high-reasoning problem solving needs and evade a lot of pain. Now, I just need to be able to predict accurately when I need this extra 5% and when not :)

the extra 5% time you will need to help AI with multiple turns and information it needed. These 5% time reasoning rarely is enough to finish the task. i.e. 5% time AI is just not enough to complete the task without a lot help.