Re:Ask HN: What coding agents are you using?
by zerr on Thursday June 11, 2026 @10:20AM
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Is it true that there is not much difference between free and affordable models? And, unless you are spending $2000 per month, you are not really leveraging the industry standard coding agents.
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Re:Ask HN: What coding agents are you using?
by m-dot-reviews on Thursday June 11, 2026 @12:59PM
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Anecdotally, yes there is definitely a difference. Even e.g. Haiku (cheapest Anthropic model) vs gpt-oss-120b had a big difference in quality and syntax issues when I was testing them for DSL generation. Granted, that's a little different from generating a popular language with lots of training data, but you could consider it a proxy for "learning" new concepts outside of training.