alt Hacker News> I'm concerned since i really want SOTA reasoning
I think you should give other models a try and see how much they differ from SOTA models. I did this and realized, even Qwen-2.5-Max was enough. I am sure even Claude Sonnet 3.5 is enough for things I play around with. I am not really striving for fields medal in Mathematics.
That's fair, neither am i - i do tend to work in large, complex, full of legacy decision based codebases. Eg i have access to Sonnet (of course), but i choose to solely work in Opus because i find its output reads better, analyzes better, etc.
The "cost" is dumb models is just so high for me. Eg every bad decision they make increases my frustration quite a bit. Despite putting a lot of effort into my workflow to help reduce the number of decisions they make, they always will. So my hedge is always against that.. trying to reduce how insane they can be heh.