So Codex with Daybreak Blue refuses less. You need to join OpenAI's cybersecurity program. But it seems to be pretty simple: I just told them that I do some Linux kernel work for fun, but that codex refuses anything that touches C and the kernel.

I've also tried DeepSeek and now Mimo. DeepSeek was really quite useful before the price increase, because I didn't care too much about burning a lot of tokens. But it was less useful since, especially since my timezone here in Singapore is the same as in China, so my waking and working hours have a lot of overlap with their peak pricing. However, it's gotten a bit cheaper effectively, because their new flash model is supposedly as good as the old pro model.

Which cheap models are you using (especially those that refuse less)?

So far I've only really used Mimo to drive Sashiko, which is a kernel review tool. I haven't used it for actually writing code.

Kimi is pretty decent overall. But I haven't given it really hard work. Running a fuzzer is pretty simple, and so's the other stuff I asked it so far.