[theshrike79]

I've been running about the same stack for well over a year now, Anthropic cheapest + OpenAI cheapest + z.ai coder (black friday offer).

The Z.AI is a bit wonky, so now I'm moving to Openrouter for Qwen+Kimi+Deepseek?GLM

My summer project is to figure out a proper agentic system where a "big" model does the planning, but automatically uses a cheaper one for the grunt work. Having Opus to config edits is just stupid :)

[jurgenburgen]

> My summer project is to figure out a proper agentic system where a "big" model does the planning, but automatically uses a cheaper one for the grunt work. Having Opus to config edits is just stupid :)

My company pays for the tokens so I don’t care. Biggest model and max everything. The slight risk of a smaller model making a mistake is more expensive than just running the bigger model all the time.

[theshrike79]

Oh I do that at work too, for sure. I'm riding that Claude Teams subscription like I stole it.

But I'm playing the long game you see. The tokens will get expensive and the monthly subscriptions will either go away or also get too expensive.

Then companies want efficient token use and cost control - and I'll already know how to do that =)