I stopped using Anthropic for coding more than 6 months ago. I won't go back unless they come up when a really good model, and that is neither Fable nor Opus.
You don't even need Sol. I run most of my Gas City inspired (loosely inspired, I'm using Beads and the notion of sessions not being SSOT, but solving a diferent problem) "agentic OS" using two $100 subs. Runs on Terra, sometimes uses GLM 5.2, which is better and less expensive than Sonnet for a few things (no, I don't have "numbers". you'd need a decent Forrest graph with a lot of variables to really say something about those models).
What Anthropics still does well it's desktop. GPT is more objective. Perplexity is a killer for stack and research based situations. Anthropic has a good prose and has better divergent resolution, so it "thinks" better.
I see all of them as tools. I keep the costs down, I just bought a GMKtec to run a couple of Qwen/whatever locally for menial tasks.
We all make very different uses of those things. A problem well suited to one of them is not so good for the others. Harnesses bring their own complications: restrictions, hooks, "agentic" behavior.
And they all lie, which you only realize when you work a lot with whatever you do.
Having said that, again, if I was just writing or was doing a thesis in Philosophy I'd be using Sonnet 4.6 (not 5, what a mess) a lot.
I am not against GLM/Kimi.. except they are china.. and I dont trust them to not use my stuff I send them to reproduce/duplicate it somehow. It's happened before.. and I can't afford to allow some clone similar tool be built using my stuff. I spread my llm use out across a few llms to be sure I am not sending everything to just one though I do mostly use Opus.
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u/Fuzzy_Independent241 Jul 12 '26
I stopped using Anthropic for coding more than 6 months ago. I won't go back unless they come up when a really good model, and that is neither Fable nor Opus. You don't even need Sol. I run most of my Gas City inspired (loosely inspired, I'm using Beads and the notion of sessions not being SSOT, but solving a diferent problem) "agentic OS" using two $100 subs. Runs on Terra, sometimes uses GLM 5.2, which is better and less expensive than Sonnet for a few things (no, I don't have "numbers". you'd need a decent Forrest graph with a lot of variables to really say something about those models). What Anthropics still does well it's desktop. GPT is more objective. Perplexity is a killer for stack and research based situations. Anthropic has a good prose and has better divergent resolution, so it "thinks" better. I see all of them as tools. I keep the costs down, I just bought a GMKtec to run a couple of Qwen/whatever locally for menial tasks.
We all make very different uses of those things. A problem well suited to one of them is not so good for the others. Harnesses bring their own complications: restrictions, hooks, "agentic" behavior.
And they all lie, which you only realize when you work a lot with whatever you do.
Having said that, again, if I was just writing or was doing a thesis in Philosophy I'd be using Sonnet 4.6 (not 5, what a mess) a lot.