Comment by tmpz22

4 months ago

> effectively pulling the rug from under their customers.

This is the whole point of AI. Its a black box that they can completely control.

I hope local models advance to the point they can match Opus one day...

  • If OP is correct, Opus has regressed to a point where local models are already on par with it.

    • Having tried GLM-5 and Minimax M2.5, alongside regularly using Opus 4.6 (on default thinking): Opus is still much, much better at writing non-garbage code. I haven't yet tried GLM-5.1 though.

  • Considering the advances in software and hardware, I would expect that in 2 or 3 years.

    And I hope we will eventually reach a point where models become "good enough" for certain tasks, and we won't have to replace them every 6 months.

    (That would be similar to the evolution of other technologies like personal computers and smartphones.)