At work I wouldn't want to use anything else. Compared to my salary a Claude subscription (or two) is cheap

For hobby projects I've completely switched to DeepSeek v4 pro. I spend less than on a $10 Claude plan and am not subjected to quota limits (when I have time and motivation, the last thing I want is a 5 hour quota running out). And the difference in model performance is fine for those smaller projects, most of which will end up abandoned or in a state of "good enough" anyways

And for utility tasks, those 30b models are also great. I'm a big fan of gemma4

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llmslave 6 hours ago | parent [-]

ive just got better things to do with my life than fuss with an inferior model. its like why hire a dumb employee over a smart one

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BeetleB 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I think you misspelled "I've got plenty of money".

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llmslave 5 hours ago | parent [-]

200 bucks a month?

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BeetleB 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Is a lot of money. The majority of people here aren't willing to spend $200/mo for coding unless their little projects provide a comparable value back to them.

For context, I'm paying under $30/year and get GLM-5.2. An extra $2300/year isn't going to get me much better outcomes.

	▲	llmslave 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		it seems cheap for what is borderline AGI