(Our team spend on AI devtools comes out to around $1500/person/mo)

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/03/17/bbc-digital-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...

I have a 2007 Fiat Ducato which has done at least half a million kilometres (the odometer only goes up to 399,999). Only issue is the EGR valve is stuck closed (can't get to it without removing the engine, so not worth fixing), and the body is banged up (ex builders van). Still gets 8l/100km (30mpg) on the highway.

GPT-5 Nano should really be in the list too. It is $0.05 input and $0.40 output - and half that if you use the Flex tier.

Last week I upgraded an old batch process from GPT-4.1 Nano, and GPT-5 Nano worked just as well as GPT-5.4 Nano but at a much lower cost.

As always OpenAIs naming is really bad, GPT-5.4 Nano is a different model, its not a straight upgrade from GPT-5 Nano.

However there isn't really a "correct" answer that's easy to define in code (I could manually label a training set, but wanted to avoid that) so I had the LLM just analyse the results itself and decide if they are better or not. It wrote deterministic rules for a few things, but overall it just reviewed the results of each round and decided if the are better or not.

Reviewing the before and after results, I would say yes, it's a big improvement in quality. It also optimised the prompt size to reduce input tokens by 25% and switched to a smaller/cheaper model.

        -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-GGUF:UD-Q6_K_XL \ 
        -c 128000 \
        --parallel 1 \
        --flash-attn on \
        --no-context-shift \
        --cache-type-k q8_0 \
        --cache-type-v q8_0 \
        --temp 0.6 \
        --top-p 0.95 \
        --top-k 20 \
        --min-p 0.0 \
        --presence_penalty 0.0 \
        --reasoning on \
        --jinja \
        --chat-template-kwargs "{\"preserve_thinking\": true}" \
        --spec-type ngram-simple \
        --draft-max 64 \
        --timeout 1800

- If you pay for unlimited trips will you choose the Ferrari or the old VW? Both are waiting outside your door, ready to go.

- Providers that let you choose models don't really price much difference between lower class models. On my grandfathered Cursor plan I pay 1x request to use Composer 2 or 2x request to use Opus 4.6. Until the price is more differentiated so people can say "ok yes Opus is smarter, but paying 10x more when Haiku would do the same isn't worth it" it won't happen.