[feintruled]

Some missing context (pun intended) is that Augment code has recently switched to a per-token instead of per-message pricing model. This hasn't gone down particularly well, but that's another story. But it may well be that users drop back to older models in the expectation it will use less tokens.

Personally, I stopped using GPT-5 as it would just be tool call after tool call without ever stopping to tell you what the hell it was doing. Sonnet 4.5 much better in this regard. Albeit it's too verbose for the new token based world ('let me just summarise that in a report')

[jazzyjackson]

I have to get better at interrupting Sonnet 4.5 when it starts going down a rabbit hole I didn't ask it to, it's too bad the incentives are mixed up and Anthropic gets more money the longer the bot spirals.

[infecto]

My take is the models matter but the tool call integration is the most important piece and differentiator.