Dev's daily-driver LLM stack: GLM, DeepSeek and Qwen now rival closed models
Jasonio · x · 2026-09-18
Developer TheAhmadOsman lists the LLMs he currently keeps in stable rotation: GLM 5.3 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Qwen 3.8 Next Flash, and Qwen 3.8 27B. He notes that a year ago such performance outside OpenAI and Anthropic would have seemed unbelievable, and argues open models will only get better from here.
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