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In all seriousness, between DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Kimi K2.6 and now K2.7-Code, Xiaomi's MiMo-2.5-Pro, and Qwen3.7 Max, I haven't touched Claude for any sort of progr
by abalashov 4mo ago
In all seriousness, between DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Kimi K2.6 and now K2.7-Code, Xiaomi's MiMo-2.5-Pro, and Qwen3.7 Max, I haven't touched Claude for any sort of programming-related task in months.
I still lean on Claude for research/chat questions that require going out to the world to get the answer competently, but that's just laziness, and all of their competitors can do that, too.
I don't use OpenAI or Gemini, either. The Chinese models are just that good. If all three of the US majors banned me, I think that'd be just fine.
- abalashov 4mo agoAdding later: and of course, there's GLM 5.2 (Z.ai), which I've now had a chance to try. Holy crap. I'll grant you, I don't "one-shot" "long-horizon" tasks the way some people do, but I'd say for garden-variety agentic coding, any of these can hang with the big kids.