Comment by throwaway13337

o4-mini is available on vs code. I've been playing with it for the last couple of hours. It's quite fast for a thinking model.

It's also super concise with code. Where claude 3.7 and gemini 2.5 will write a ton, o4-mini will write a tiny portion of it accomplishing the same task.

On the flip side, in its conciseness, it's more lazy with implementation than the other leading models missing features.

For fixing very complex typescript types, I've previously found that o1 outperformed the others. o4-mini seems to understand things well here.

I still think gemini will continue to be my favorite model for code. It's more consistent and follows instructions better.

However, openAI's more advanced models have a better shot at providing a solution when gemini and claude are stuck.

Maybe there's a win here in having o4-mini or o3 do a first draft for conciseness, revise with gemini to fill in what's missed (but with a base that is not overdone), and then run fixes with o4-mini.

Things are still changing quite quickly.