I keep trying to switch to the Chinese models, but I keep finding myself asking Claude to fix their outputs. (Both functionality and style.) So I always end up switching back.[0]

I also keep trying GPT, which is quite solid. Very fast, great at debugging. But its code is often overly clever and hurts my brain.

(Maybe fixable with prompting. I tried and it helped the Chinese ones a bit. Just tell them do be elegant, like in the old image AI days "+good -bad"!)

For now I do still need my human brain to actually be able to make sense of the stuff, and Claude is the only one that consistently meets that requirement.

But I am hoping that one of these days, one of the Chinese labs figures out the special sauce :)

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[0] (For smallish edits, though, I am having a great time with DeepSeek Flash. Practically unlimited AI on tap! How cool is that.)