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		joshmlewis 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 For coding at least, I don't bother with anything less than the top thinking models. They do have their place for some tasks in agentic systems but time is money and I don't want to waste time trying to coral less skilled models when there are more powerful ones available.

jonplackett 6 months ago [–]

I have the same logic but opposite conclusion - o3 just takes SO LONG to respond that I often just use o4-mini

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