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Yup.

I see posts about OpenAI and Anthropic latest and don’t even care looking at what they do better. I just read the comments here.

I use DS4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash, pay peanuts per day and get more than acceptable results.

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Exactly what I've been doing. I don't need the all-powerful GPT-6 Math Scoopa, or Opus T-1000, just to write react, svelte and C# for me; my local Qwen3.8 is more than capable, and I can switch to Deepseek and GLM on OpenRouter when I need speed. I just pop in to read the comments on HN for the latest drama and navel gazing, then I click the Hide button and move on. Couldn't give a wooden nickel what their latest and greatest models are capable of anymore, it's just PR buzz.

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