solarkraft
3 hours ago
Fine, I’ll try GLM 5.2 since it has arrived in my OpenCode subscription. I haven’t used it much, but GLM 5.1 hasn’t blown me away. If it really is that good, a minor release seems to undersell it. I found Anthropic’s .5 jump a bit silly, but it does its job in communicating the advancement.
aerodexis
3 hours ago
How do you go about comparing models? Personally, I've found that the quality of output is overwhelmingly dictated by the quality of the input I give it - and that the quality of input differs massively depending on the task at hand, how much documentation exists, what kind of mood I'm in, etc.
Hence, I'm beginning to believe that unless you're doing very specialized work - the model itself has become a commodity, incremental quality is irrelevant and that economics and privacy are what actually matter now.
dsign
2 hours ago
> the model itself has become a commodity
Indeed. So the winner is going to be whoever can also commoditize the rest, i.e. hardware and energy costs. In the long run, whoever has the factories to make chips, windmills and solar panels is going to be ahead. I think this is well understood by the American elites, and it can very well explain their exacerbated hawkishness.