alt Hacker NewsIt's well priced but does that have much relevance for "state of the art coding models", specifically?
I wouldn't use Gemini 3 Flash or GPT 5.4 mini for anything except the most trivial work, although both are useful for basic exploratory work.
So I'm using a heavy model for the bulk of the work and the cost of that so far outweighs the light model that the light model cost is effectively irrelevant.
It's so interesting to see the wild pendulum swings of LLM sentiment here.
If one likes a model then it's capable of one-shotting entire apps.
Otherwise it's "only suitable for the most trivial tasks".
Never in between.