It's simple: close weights = not welcome.
replyIt's almost as if HN users aren't all the same.
replyall the open source models are a waste of time relative to the bleeding edge from openai/anthropic
replyAt work I wouldn't want to use anything else. Compared to my salary a Claude subscription (or two) is cheap
replyFor 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
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
replyI think you misspelled "I've got plenty of money".
reply200 bucks a month?
replyNot true since a few months, genuinely try GLM 5.2 and Minimax M3, especially in adversarial/gating... as a general model, I can agree, but as a coding model, they are not bad, comparable to maybe Opus 4.5 in real usage which is quite impressive.
replyI use GLM or DS4 to help me draft a better initial prompt with more information that I then give to Sonnet 5/Fable/GPT5.5. While benchmarks show the open models close to frontier level, my experience with them is drastically different. I have high confidence that Fable or GPT will 1 shot solutions.
replyAt least with low level programming languages. They're all very good for webdev stuff.
yeah but why waste your time on these models, just use the one that gets the better results
replyI actively prefer GLM-5.2 for some tasks. For simple tasks the results are just as good as e.g. Opus, and it produces results significantly faster.
replyBecause you can get them from more trustworthy providers or with hardware encryption.
replyi trust anthropic/openai with my data far more than some random startup.
replyI was going to respond until I saw your account name lol.
replyhaha i outsource my thinking to the smartest model
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