I use Kimi K2.6 and Minimax 3. Both are mainly due to pricing.

I got 6 months of Google Pro from buying my new phone, so I use Gemini Pro 3.1 and Gemini 3 Flash quite a bit, but don’t think it does too well compared to Kimi and Minimax.

I use Opus 4.6 as I get some usage from Google Pro, but it’s just like 1 task or something.

It is obviously the best, but considering the usage is extremely expensive, and I can use Kimi and Minimax almost 100x as much with a subscription. It kinda becomes a worse model. I’d rather Kimi working really long on a problem, than a slightly more powerful model with almost no usage. I can get a lot more done with high quality results from Kimi due to this.

What models are you using, and why?

(Sorry of discussions are not allowed in this community)

      • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        use it inside claude. does decent. I generally dont assign AI models large free form tasks. they all suck at them from my experience.

        I usually stick to planing + execution modes for straight forward task.

        • ComradePenguin@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I did not know you could use 3rd party models in Claude, is it better than OpenCode? Or is it its own Hermes/Openclaw thing?

          • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            i havent compared it to other model runners. havent really felt the need. my concern was always local host first. =)

            and yeah claude has environment variables you can just point at different endpoints.

            I just uncomment the exports at the end when i want to enable my local model.

            cat ~/.bashrc.d/claude.sh 
unset ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN
unset ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL
unset ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
unset ANTHROPIC_MODEL

# https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/20003
# https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/20087
#export CLAUDE_CODE_ATTRIBUTION_HEADER=0
#export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=ollama
#export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=""
#export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434/
            • ComradePenguin@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Interesting, I should probably check it out. I use OpenCode currently, but it is always interesting to try other tools

  • vermaterc@lemmy.mlMEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Sorry of discussions are not allowed in this community

    Hello, mod here, discussions are welcome

    • ComradePenguin@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Thanks for the info. Really happy that it is. I have been missing a community for AI agentic discussions. The rest of Lemmy seem to loathe AI

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        it seems to depend on how close you are; culturally speaking; to the anglosphere.

        look at rednote for an example of a large platform – very distant from the anglosphere – embracing ai content.

        • ComradePenguin@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Interesting. I am trying to have an open mind towards non-coding parts, but struggle a bit. It might be something I should reconsider or expose myself to. I will install Rednote out of curiousity.

          • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            rednote w/o all the hasbara and american state department propaganda feels odd and silly at the same time; i recommend it.

  • infinitevalence@discuss.onlineEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I have been working on setting up a reliable workflow using a combination of gemma4:26b, deep seek coder, and qwen3.5:27b

    I’m not a programmer is results are meh and I’m running into container issues but the speed is impressive and it’s good enough that with some trouble shooting and verification between models I’m making progress.