alt Hacker NewsAt the right price, these model don't need to be the best, good enough will do. I think we're fast approaching good enough for most users.
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JKCalhoun • today at 1:15 PM
Not only that, it's easy to let ethics steer my choice as well. And at this point I suspect OpenAI will never earn my respect.
opennash • today at 5:38 PM
agreed, unlimited gpt5.5 fast is sufficient for 90% of my use cases. Tried Fable, nice to have but we don't really need it.
panos_news • today at 2:00 PM
Yeah, that's how I feel too. I am totally fine with xHigh GPT 5.5 when it comes to coding.
boc • today at 6:33 AM
OTOH, using the best is a competitive advantage when time = money. It's like giving your engineers a slow laptop because it's cheaper. It may be cheaper but not worth the cost.
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flowbarai • today at 7:02 PM
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This. Here's a quick experiment I did yesterday.
I got a new $20 Claude subscription to try the new Fable model. I gave it a single prompt, and it barely finished, using up my whole session quota (it was at ~95% when it finished) and 10% of my weekly quota.
For comparison, with the Kimi Code $40 subscription I can pretty much constantly run two/three agents in parallel for the whole week, and I never run out of quota. I can blindly throw it at anything and everything without worrying about hitting the limits. (And it's not exactly a cheap model to run -- it has 1 trillion parameters!)
Is Kimi as good as Claude? Of course not. But you don't need the absolute state-of-art for most things. If I don't have exceptionally difficult tasks it makes no sense to use it. Just throw Kimi at it, and even if it needs to run 2 or 3 times longer in the background I don't care, because I'm not running out of tokens there.