If you can't tell the difference between Opus 4.6 and Qwen-80B, I can only conclude that you're not using these things in any kind of practical way. Even for creative writing it's a night and day difference, never mind coding.
> I can only conclude that you're not using these things in any kind of practical way.
I burn about 100M tokens per month. LLMs are like knives, the outcome of cooking depends on the cook and for 99% of purposes not on the knife. There is not that much difference between a $2000 handmade damascus steel knife and a $20 knife.
You can do agentic cooking (aka factory) and you will get ready made meals without human intervention. But it wont make a Michelin star menu.
Same with LLMs and coding, LLMs are an amazing new tool in the toolbox but not a silver bullet. However, that's what they are hyped as being.
Now OpenAI & Co are in the token selling business, which is all fine and dandy but if they manage to become monopolies, then things are seriously in trouble.
Thus if people are fanboi-ing any closed AI I can only conclude that they have already outsourced their critical thinking to an LLM and are happy to go into slavery - or maybe they are hoping to cash in big time on the hype train.
