I care a lot about speed and efficiency right now. For my setup I would like to have 2-3 different model families. I've settled on GLM-5.3 (formerly Deepseek v4 pro 0813) for architecting, Deepseek V4 Pro 0813 for developing, and Gemini flash lite (any recent cheap model) for repo scouting. I'll add another one in the mix for reviewing (in this case Gemini 3.7) and that's all I need.

I've tried most models except Grok.

Qwen is too expensive IMO (Alibaba Cloud subscriptions are hard to come by and I'm not spending 50 euros a month for a tool, so 18 euros it is). If it ever becomes efficient enough to run locally I will definitely look back.

Claude is slow and expensive (the cache hit prices are absurd).

OAI is pretty good, I might add it to my arsenal seeing how cheap it is.

These opinions change every day. Last week I would've never picked Deepseek until I read about the pricing. even post aug 16 it's worth it (although it's getting close to gemini pricing).

Right now my costs are 12 euros a month (z.ai) + whatever deepseek consumes. This typically isn't more than 8 euros a week. 44 euros a month and I have a setup that is doing pretty well.

I stopped compacting and started making new chats every time and it has saved me an immense amount of context. I'm using deepseek and their cache hit is cheap, so combining this I don't spend more than 4 bucks a week.

I really don't mind keeping these docs up to date if it means I can leave my desk to go do something more important

Then I asked Opus 5 to do an analysis of the new code, docs, tooling, and tell me what it finds.

It found "six bugs", made an artifact of it (not sure why) and then fixed said bugs. two out of those were unfinished tasks. They weren't bugs yet per se, think of a prefix that wasn't setup for an object that was unused anyway.

The other four were not bugs and it just updated documentation along with a "regression prevention test". It wasn't a bad suggestion, but calling it a bug was odd, and I'm unsure if this was going to be an issue regardless as it was documented somewhere else.

Anyway, I already hit my session limit after this, so deepseek and glm are grinding away again, doing more progress than claude does in the 40 minutes it takes to analyse code.

I'm glad claude is shipping auto-mode. I hope OpenCode integrates something similar soon.

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Ubisoft has decided it will not support Linux because they need kernel-level anti-cheat, which is absurd in my opinion.

I just want to do a siege with friends

Why not reference call spoofing (i forgot the name) where they were able to call for no charge because they were able to spoof a real call. that's the kind of hacker vibe i want continued.

> sonnet

if you're looking for a speedy model why not go for gemma?