alt Hacker NewsUsing a shittier model is just more work for the user, I’m not sure why anyone does it, unless they’re playing with it like a toy.
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Kaliboy • today at 12:37 AM
I sometimes let Claude Opus create plans, DeepSeek v4 pro implements and writes tests. Claude reviews and corrects.
Saves like $2-3 per session. Same quality code.
Local privacy respecting inference can be worth it. I use a local model to log everything I do all week to automate my timesheet. I also have it do a bunch of other data tasks. I won't say that larger SOTA models wouldn't do these tasks better than a local model but PII is a concern and my employer wouldn't approve of me just setting tokens on fire everyday to do what I could do myself.