[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