alt Hacker News> 25% of people will feel similarly enough to endure a meaningful drop in quality and intelligence in pursuit of those things you mentioned?
Anthropic continues to serve haiku - which suggests people have a use for less-than sota models.
A bugatti is undoubtedly a higher performance car than a honda civic. Yet if you're commuting to work in rush hour traffic, both cars will get you there in the same amount of time - and one is going to cost you a lot less.
The pitch of the frontier labs is that you need a bugatti for everything. I don't buy that.
I use haiku and open weight models as well. It doesn't mean they're the only models I rely on, far from it.
In fact, it's usually my use of more capable models that I've instructed to delegate low-level work to these less capable models that is resulting in my haiku et al usage.