I do but that's become my work is routing between all the models and end to end encryption, and making new models from these models https://trustedrouter.com/blog/synth-iris-prometheus-zeus

I enjoy using opencode go to play around with a lot of different models. I wind up using deepseek v4 flash for most everything, stepping up to minimax m3 if that doesn't cut it, finally preferring GLM for complex tasks or important planning I want to go right the first time

I recommend opencode or something akin to it to play with models. Any big model updates or hot new ones will naturally run across your desk that way

I think the play now is to just try out whatever the best new model is every time you see a headline that fundamentally reorganizes your conception of what's possible.

Are you saying we've reached peak Bike shedding?

I don't think you need to be keeping abreast of them really, you just need to be using the best model you can get enough tokens from, which for many people is Fable 5 @ $200ish, ideally fanning out implementation to cheaper models