[msabalau]

Not everyone is you. Other people probably have a range of tasks that can accomplished with different models.

Certainly if I'm confident that I'm going to get what I need from a faster model, that's what I want to use, rather than wasting time grinding away for the sake of saying of the same answer came from a SOTA model.

Given that every chatbot does offer a range of models, it seems clear people do choose among options.

[internet2000]

The mental effort in estimating what model would be better is so not worth it.

I just want to switch to Claude Code, tell it to turn a .csv into a BigQuery table then cmd+tab to something else while it runs. Thinking "oh this is probably an easy task, I can /model to Sonnet to save $0.0004" is silly.

[tackta]

People actually use the models for more than writing code.

I barely used Fable because of the rate limits. It just makes more sense to use Opus.

If there were no limits it would be different.

It is not to save a fraction of a penny, it is to be able to still use the model within the limit on the week for $20.

[resonious]

The game changes when it's not just "Opus vs Sonnet", but "Opus vs GLM". The amount saved is way more than even $0.04. And it's not only money but speed. Some providers can serve GLM crazy fast - I'll even go outside of my subscription to pay extra money for the quick results.

[toyg]

Not everything is interactive, and what the routers do is precisely take away that mental effort on repeated tasks.