alt Hacker NewsThat doesn’t make sense. It’s not like SOTA models are error free, yet we still use them.
You use Fable 5 right? If that’s good enough for you now, why wouldn’t a Chinese model that’s as good as Fable 5 but at 10% the cost be good enough in 6 months?
I think we put up with Fable's occasional hiccups because there's nothing better at the moment.
I use Claude Code semi-heavily for my small business, and the $100/mo I pay for that is a rounding error compared to the value it provides.
If I can avoid spending an hour or two "massaging" the output from a lower-end model once, or it avoids introducing one load-bearing (sorry, couldn't resist) bug, then that's the entire $100 right there.
Hell, you could argue that the best "coding model" that we have at the moment is the human brain, and people will gladly pay $10,000/mo for one of them.
Arguing over $20 vs $100 for something that actually puts in work just seems insane to me.