Most of HN is stuck in this fantasyland where they insist their local LLM setup is comparable to Opus 4.8 or GPT 5.5. It's like a collective delusion, I've never seen anything like it.

You can get really good results with Chinese models. You're putting Opus and GPT on too high of a pedestal.

I use Chinese models (for simple personal projects), they just don't compare to GPT or Opus for any serious work.

I do not know why every Chinese model fan thinks that people that aren't impressed by them simply don't use them.

Wast majority of software engineers do very little except of moving JSONs around and building CRUDs.

It's quite obvious that when you dont try to do something particularly complex there will be literally no difference between GPT, Claude, Gemini and Deepseek.

Fot many things I'm doing in gamedev Gemini 2.5 Pro was already good enough even though it released more than year ago.

Once you pass certain threshold it's just enough.

Some of the new and open models are very capable now, The truth is, the value of the model is in the mind of the user - the big names are impressive to those who know little and are dazed by little, but they are bound to end up wrong regardless of how good the model is.

This is ridiculous. How about the rational users who use the best current model regardless of brand? The value of the model is in the quality of the output over time. I give every major model a chance. Coding and scripts in the chat are nothing compared to the power of agentic SWEEEEEEEEE. And nothing is remotely close to claude and gpt. If you're comfortable with being well behind SOTA intelligence, then good for you, but some of us prefer to be efficient with our time and resources. With your mindset, you will never truly SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE