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by overgard 1 day ago
I concur that there isn't that much difference between the good ones. I'm not really trying to push the limits of what they can do or anything, but I'd say on average I give it tasks about the size of something that would take me a half day to do by hand, and honestly, other than minor quirks in coding style and word choices, they've all basically been "good enough" for what I want. When I tried fable it just wasn't for me because it was basically very expensive overkill. I usually stay on the older models as long as I can just because they're predictable and I care a lot more about predictability and cost than being on the super cutting edge or whatever. (Honestly I'd kind of rather the enthusiasts test it first for the various "new model deleted my database" bugs that seem to pop up.
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Yeah definitely good enough for work. I think people only get into trouble going “agentic” and trying to automate je ne sais quoi