alt Hacker News> For day-to-day developer work, it’s totally viable to focus on one or two flash-tier cheap models
GLM 5.3 flash has been good as my default profile Hermes bot, after I readjusted its memory to point to a couple of key skills.
I got some great coding results with GLM 5.2, and 5.3 Flash is supposedly almost as good, so I will be trying it out soon for day to day tasks as the post advises.
I've been using GLM 5.3 Flash quite a lot for coding this month since they've had their promotion running. It's been tackling some difficult stuff - coding up a Julia version of the luminal GPU kernel optimization package, FPGA work with Verilog (including getting a BitNet 2B model running on FPGA - that one's been split between Claude and GLM), coding up a Julia version of DiffLUT. It's been handling these tasks pretty well. I do move between Claude Sonnet 5.5 & GLM 5.3-flash on the BitNet one based on what's available.