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A month of agentic coding for $68 is the headline for me. Model choice is becoming a budgeting decision as much as a quality one.

In two years (or less) the frontier of today will be this cheap, which kind of blows my mind

GLM 5.3 flash matches Opus 4.8 in general intelligence, and somewhere in the Opus 4.7–4.8 band for coding.

There was 4.3 months between Opus 4.7 and GLM 5.3 flash. Shorten your timelines ;).