I used to sing the same tune as you are now- "models are interchangeable". For today, all other models seems significantly dumber and waste more of my time than Opus 5.5.

tl;dr: You should try Opus 5.5 and report back.

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rbehrends an hour ago | parent [-]

I have been using Opus 5.5 (as well as pretty much all frontier models). I am not sure why you think I haven't.

	▲	bigwheels 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It hinges on what you consider "common engineering tasks", this definition may not be shared amongst audience.