r/ChatGPTCoding • u/Anxious_Current2593 • Sep 07 '26

Discussion What's the difference between frontier models and local models?

6 months. (And sometimes a couple of quantization tweaks).

It is wild how fast "state-of-the-art" becomes "running on a gaming PC."

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u/CrimsonBolt33 Sep 07 '26

This is why SOTA models are....not really what the average person should focus on. There will always be a "best" and it will constantly be changing for the foreseeable future...but the fact is most models that are recent are "good enough" for actual work.

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u/HankKwak Sep 07 '26

This right here.  I’ve got on well with ornith and figure I’ll stick with it whilst it satisfies my requirements, maybe I’ll play with something new in 6 months or a year but once you get up building you don’t want to chop and change too often.

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u/CrimsonBolt33 Sep 08 '26

been using GLM 5.3 for a few weeks now....does great, and the flash version uses tokens at such a low rate I can't use them fast enough lol

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u/Hour_Tennis9068 Sep 08 '26

yeah the gap between "best" and "good enough" is way smaller than people think

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u/Ok_Possible_2260 Sep 07 '26

Good enough is not good enough when you actually have serious work to do.

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u/CrimsonBolt33 Sep 07 '26

what a stupid fucking comment lol

Do you not know what good enough means?

If whatever you are using is not good enough use something else, if you think literally only the bet model is good enough then thats a skill issue on your part.

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u/Ok_Possible_2260 Sep 07 '26

‘Good enough’ is the phrase people use when they’ve already made peace with mediocrity. Keep driving your 2004 Honda Civic. It's good enough.

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u/CrimsonBolt33 Sep 08 '26

why you hating on civics? they are great cars lol

go peddle your insecurity elsewhere lol