No single model to rule them all: developer juggles Opus, GPT-6 Astra and Chinese models as agents
iannuttall · x · 2026-09-23
- Developer iannuttall says Fable 5.1 and now Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra (and soon Sol) each win different tasks, forcing him to keep subscriptions with both providers.
- His workflow: no one model rules them all, so he switches between them as lead agents and offloads grunt work to Chinese models.
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