alt Hacker NewsHow do people keep track of all these versions and releases of all these models and their pros/cons? Seems like a fulltime hobby to me. I'd rather just improve my own skills with all that time and energy
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Someone1234 • yesterday at 8:27 PM
Unless you're interested in this type of stuff, I'm not sure you really need to. Claude, Google, and ChatGPT have been fairly aggressive at pushing you towards whatever their latest shiny is and retiring the old one.
Only time it matters if you're using some type of agnostic "router" service.
8note • yesterday at 10:08 PM
on a subscription you cant access all that many different options, so you just stay with whatever the newest is unless it doesnt work.
For me it's simple. I did my research, settled on Anthropic and Claude and got the Pro plan at ~$20/month. That way I only have to keep track of what Anthropic are offering, and that isn't even necessary as the tools I use for AI-supported development (Claude Code for VS Code extension, Xcode Intelligence and Claude Desktop) offer me to use the newsest models as soon as they are released.