[x187463]

This has been ubiquitous for a while. Even here on HN every thread about these models (even this one, I'm sure) features an inordinate amount of disagreement between people vehemently declaring one model more useful than another. There truly seems to be no objective measurement of quality that can discern the difference between frontier models.

[physix]

I think this is actually good, because it means there is no clear winner who can sit back and demand rent. Instead they all work as hard as they can to stay competitive, hopefully thereby accelerating AI software engineering capabilities, with the investors footing the bill.

[NitpickLawyer]

Yeah, I agree. And prices are slowly coming down. Gemini 2.5 was cheaper than claude4, and (again depending on task) either on par or slightly below in quality. Now gpt5 is cheaper still (I think their -main is 10$/M?) and they also have -mini and -nano versions. The more choices we have the better it will be. As you said, without a clear winner we're about to get spoiled for choice, and there's no clear way for them to just sit on stuff and increase prices (yet). Plus there's some pressure coming from the open source releases. Not there in quality, but they are runnable "on prem", pretty cheap and keep getting better.