And if you want to dial in a setting in between: I've switched to Kimi K2.6 (now K2.7) and DeepSeek through OpenRouter and Reasonix for pretty much everything, with no discernible loss of analytical quality or utility.

However, like many commenters, I don't really believe in vibe-coding, long-horizon agentic one-shot agentic coding, etc. and do not use LLMs for huge generation tasks that involve designing things end-to-end.

I also have an MBP with 128 GB of unified memory and do quite a bit of Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. No, it's not as smart as the aforementioned models, to say nothing of frontier, but many people seem pleasantly shocked by the number of banal tasks that do not require these.