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points by ecshafer 4 days ago | 0 comments

Currently the difference in my work between the best models and okay models is pretty night and day to the point its not worth using the older models. Now I haven't used the newest top open source models. But if I give the same code base to say Qwen 3.6 and GPT 5.6, Qwen will analyze the source of the problems wrong, provide actually wrong solutions, write code that takes 100x as long to run. Its not even worth it outside of querying for snippets of code. GPT 5.6 will help actually root cause the problems.

[–] mattlondon 2 days ago

Ah but if the price is 10x - as the IBM CEO suggests - your employer might just ask you to use that, and then expect you to make up the gap between the cheap and expensive models using your own brain instead of just pissing money up the wall on high token costs AND your salary. You know, like the old days when we actually had to do the work ourselves.

I think this is a very high likelihood scenario.

[–] EasyMark 3 days ago

I think the point is that you are not everyone. Not everyone has your requirements, sounds like paying the premium is worth it for you, but others simply don't need it.