alt Hacker NewsAny model currently in 2026 is better than the ones of 2024. What is the quality difference really.
I mean i think if a developer has a good handle of the code the difference is marginal .
Unless we 100% offload the thinking to the model and act like a prompt manager. Maybe
For personal projects, I defer almost everything day-to-day to the models, so it gives me a good feel for what the models are good at.
Even then, it's kind of a wash these days between the sota models, and we're talking about maybe a 10% performance difference or something. But every once in a while there's the experience of one model spinning its wheels on a bug/repro/issue while another model comes in and one-shots the solution.