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You can’t be loyal to these things. I ditched ChatGPT during the peak Claude hype after Christmas.

I feel like Claude has shittified a bit and ChatGPT is good and fast. Gemini remains mediocre, although it seems Google AI energy is directed elsewhere.

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Just sign up with something like openrouter and keep switching models until one completes the task.

Paying by the token is a much more expensive way of doing it than signing up for the various coding plans when you need them.

Not if the models are way cheaper. For many tasks you can do with DeepSeek Flash, and for more gnarly problems you switch to GLM or Kimi. But sure, if you do everything in large models like Kimi K3 or GLM it gets expensive quickly.

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