[lbreakjai]

Have you tried deepseek V4? It costs pennies and is as good as Opus 4.6 (I found 4.7 to be a downgrade, and cancelled my claude subscription before 4.8).

The threshold has definitely been crossed.

[echelon]

It is not as good as Opus. I've tried to write Rust with it (and Codex for that matter), and it's awful.