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cedws · 2026-10-28T17:36:37.000Z

I’m itching for more smart cheap models. I have a mid level Claude and ChatGPT subscription and I’m blasting through my usage, and I’m too cheap to pay for the higher tier.

I use DeepSeek too but it’s more of a workhorse model, requires a lot more guiding and sometimes struggles to get where I want it.

brainwad · 2026-10-28T18:36:29.000Z

TBH they are smart enough for me; I want more speed and more initiative (e.g. my Opus one shot should not have terrible perf that it can itself fix with a simple prompt "it's OOMing, fix it"; it should proactively write the performant code).

leetharris · 2026-10-28T17:50:16.000Z

The challenge is that our bar for "smart" keeps going up and up.

If you compare to "smart" from a year ago, you have endless options that are basically free at this point which outperform everything from a year ago.

Deepseek Flash V4.1, Sonnet 5.5, GPT6 Luna, etc are really strong for the cost.

solarkraft · 2026-10-28T17:47:22.000Z

I heard Argon was bad at executing plans but good at making them. Sounds like a potent combination to me.