[overgard]

When I use these models, I honestly can't tell much of a difference between any of the frontier ones. Admittedly I'm not sitting around benchmarking them during the hype cycles, but as a coder I have zero issues switching to whatever's cheapest. Custom harnesses or whatever are not much of a moat (honestly Claude is so buggy right now that I've been using codex and opencode just so I don't have to deal with a flickery mess that screwed up my arrow keys)

I just don't see how being the "premium" provider really works if much cheaper models are basically good enough.