Comment by bandrami
25 days ago
Oh Lord, no. Not at all. That's what they're terrible at. They are ok-ish at superficial overviews and catastrophically bad at specific minutiae
25 days ago
Oh Lord, no. Not at all. That's what they're terrible at. They are ok-ish at superficial overviews and catastrophically bad at specific minutiae
Honest, non-confrontational, non-passive aggressive question: Have you used any of the latest models in the last 6 months to do coding? Or frankly, in the last year?
I have. And the people who say "use a frontier" model are full of it. The frontier models aren't any better than the free ones.
What are you defining as free versus frontier, and for what purpose? For coding there is a big difference between Opus and GPT 5.3/4 versus Sonnet and other models such as open weight ones.
They note in another comment they don't even use search engines so I don't think they're the right person to ask regarding frontier models.
I'd ask them what tools they do use, but I doubt they'll see my comment; I'll see if I can mail it to them.
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