[eleventen]

Checking openrouter (it's not available yet) and, uh, what's up with the spike in Qwen usage from early april here? https://openrouter.ai/qwen

Is this normal humans kicking the tires on a new model, or a few whales doing serious benchmarks?

[d2kx]

Qwen 3.6 Plus released and they offered it for free

[spaceman_2020]

personally seen a lot of people switch to Kimi and Qwen after Opus 4.7. Kimi 2.6 feels like Opus 4.6 which, to me, was a great model for 98% of coding tasks

[wolttam]

Frontier: Need it done quick and I'm willing to pay.

Open-weight: Good enough for the majority of tasks, and I'm willing to spend a bit more time and effort steering towards my desired result.

[spaceman_2020]

I've realized that in most of my workflows, I really don't need frontier-tier intelligence

95% of the work most of us do is mostly just plumbing - connecting X and Y together. A ton of grunt work - writing basic loops, fetch statements, importing libraries. You really don't need PhD level intelligence to handle these

The only time you need Opus 4.7+ tier intelligence is when you're quashing a nasty bug or refactoring something complex