Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?

ssolomonmwalker about 12 hours ago 4 comments

I see lots of post on here discussing the most cost-effective models for coding and people swapping around a lot.

I use Claude Code for 20 bucks a month, but I'm interested in trying out other models.

Do you guys have a website that ranks the models or do you try them out yourselves? If you try them out yourselves, what's the easiest way to quickly swap between different AI models when doing local work?

Thanks for the time!

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flemhans•about 2 hours ago

Ask AI to choose it for you ;)

One of my recurring cron-like LLM jobs is to scout the state of affairs and test new models, and swap them in if deemed useful

ghilston•15 minutes ago

Our of curiosity what do you use to run this? An actual cron or a tool like hermes etc

wseqyrku•about 11 hours ago

> I see lots of post on here discussing the most cost-effective models for coding and people swapping around a lot.

Could you link some of those here?

solomonmwalker•about 11 hours ago

Pretty much any post talking about a new model has folks saying, "I tried it out and saw <what they saw>".

Here's an example. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537553