[jml78]

To a point. If gpt5 takes 3 minutes to output and qwen3 does it in 10 seconds and the agent can iterate 5 times to finish before gpt5, why do I care if gpt5 one shot it and qwen took 5 iterations

[wahnfrieden]

It doesn’t though. Fast but dumb models don’t progressively get better with more iterations.

[Jcampuzano2]

There are many ways to skin a cat.

Often all it takes is to reset to a checkpoint or undo and adjust the prompt a bit with additional context and even dumber models can get things right.

I've used grok code fast plenty this week alongside gpt 5 when I need to pull out the big guns and it's refreshing using a fast model for smaller changes or for tasks that are tedious but repetitive during things like refactoring.

[dmix]

That very much depends on the usecase

Different models for different things.

Not everyone is solving complicated things every time they hit cmd-k in Cursor or use autocomplete, and they can easily switch to a different model when working harder stuff out via longer form chat.

[ant6n]

ChaptGPT5 takes 5 times the time to finish, and still produces garbage.