Comment by RevEng

I strongly disagree. I'm an engineer - I'm all about the fastest, cheapest thing that meets the requirements. I don't need Opus 4.7, even for my complex programming tasks. It costs over 10x other models available that still give good enough answers. Those smaller models are also a lot faster to output tokens, which saves me time.

Once the model gets good enough, the returns on bigger models diminishes quickly. I don't want to spend 10x the money and wait 5x the time to get answers that are equivalent.