alt Hacker NewsGLM 5.1 was the model that made me feel like the Chinese models had truly caught up. I cancelled my Claude Max subscription and genuinely have not missed it at all.
Some people seem to agree and some don't, but I think that indicates we're just down to your specific domain and usage patterns rather than the SOTA models being objectively better like they clearly used to be.
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I feel like it's Sonnet level for implementation, but not matching up to Opus for planning.
But I agree it's close enough that it's worth using heavily. I've not cancelled my Claude Max subscription, but I've added a z.ai subscription...
Hmm
Will try it out. Thanks for sharing!
What is your workflow? Do you use Cursor or another tool for code Gen?
The value in Claude Code is its harness. I've tried the desktop app and found it was absolutely terrible in comparison. Like, the very nature of it being a separate codebase is already enough to completely throw off its performance compared to the CLI. Nuts.
It seems like people can't even agree which SOTA model is best at any given moment anymore, so yeah I think it's just subjective at this point.