Cheap model finished in half the time at 80% — which wins in a year?
victor_explore · x · 2026-10-14
Developer aadi29494 ran an informal comparison: same job on a frontier model vs. a cheap one. The cheap one finished in half the time and got it 80% right; he still spent the evening on the other 20%, while the frontier model cost more and he spent the evening reading instead. His closing question: which one wins in a year? — pointing at the tradeoff between model pricing and human verification cost.
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