I am guessing (guessing) that "great coding model" and "great model for the widest use" (agentic, long-running, unsupervised, knowledge-worker, computer operator) are competing, conflicting endgames.-

Add to that:

- Of course, "labs" (quotes) are incentivized to throw coders under the bus and aim for the biggest possible market.-

- "Sharp, focused, brief, elegant, precise" editing, as would benefit the coding use-case, is actually token-saving, ergo, undesirable.-

The only thing that can stop this, would be the quality and functionality of the codeslop generated by these models to became so low that it actually interferes with the (alledged) recursive self-improvement of models (ie. models start to perform worse/degrade).-

Until such a time, we serfs, will eat what's on our plate, pay for it, and continue to kneel before the machine god overlords. And be glad for it.-