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by spaceman_2020 33 days ago
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