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Sonnet is 3$ per million tokens, Grok Code Fast is 0.2$. IME the latter is better for me. Wish everybody treats AI as a pay-as-you-go commodity instead of getti
by aitchnyu 11mo ago
Sonnet is 3$ per million tokens, Grok Code Fast is 0.2$. IME the latter is better for me. Wish everybody treats AI as a pay-as-you-go commodity instead of getting dependant on rugpulls. My stack is Openrouter (model marketplace) and Aider (Kilocode and Cline for user friendly alternatives).
- segmenta 11mo agoWill check out Grok Code Fast - thanks for the pointer. In my experience, coding agents can swing a lot in quality depending on the model’s reasoning power. When the model starts making small but avoidable mistakes, the overhead tends to cancel out the benefit. Curious to see how Grok performs on multi-step coding tasks.
- aitchnyu 11mo agoTrue. Im working with Python CRUD apps, which every model is fluent in. And I'm personally generating 100-line changes, not letting it run while I'm AFK.
- giancarlostoro 11mo agoThat's what I love most about Claude. I love Django and I love React (the richness of building UIs with React is insane) and sure enough Claude Code (and other models I'm sure) is insanely good at both.
- segmenta 11mo agoAh, that makes sense. I’ve had similar luck with UI refactoring on cheaper models, mainly because you can quickly verify whether the output is right.
- giancarlostoro 11mo agoZed is nicely setup for this I just have not taken the time. I do like how Claude works atm. The coding agent functionality is what's nice about Claude Code. I don't know that Grok Code Fast has that?
- segmenta 11mo agoCame across this interesting article on the internals of Claude Code: https://medium.com/@outsightai/peeking-under-the-hood-of-claude-code-70f5a94a9a62 https://medium.com/@outsightai/peeking-under-the-hood-of-cla... . The author redirected the LLM calls into LiteLLM to analyze how it behaves.
- giancarlostoro 11mo agoThat's really neat!