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Re:Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless by SBNakta on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:47PM (#50112794)
Automated model routing is just immature right now. Given how fast things are moving, though, I'd expect these resource allocation pitfalls to be ironed out soon.
Re:Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless by serf on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:06PM (#50112987)
Argon is a 4$in/20$out model; how far do you expect a 20 dollar a month plan to subsidize?
Re:Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless by SR2Z on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:40AM (#50118933)
Wait until you hear token pricing for Claude.
Re:Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless by barrenko on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:46AM (#50119868)
That's in the Opus 5.5 range, no?
Re:Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless by karp773 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:31PM (#50113219)
How did you use it? In agy cli?
Re:Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless by supertoolkit on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:25PM (#50112581)
I agree, I have tried it for making motion graphics using Argon, in middle of code generation maximum tokens got used and auto switched to 3.1 pro
Re:Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless by culopatin on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:55AM (#50148516)
At least it picked that, mine goes to flash lite
Re:Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless by fidegrap on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:30PM (#50112623)
At some point human labor will be competing with AI simply by charging less than the models charge per hour for the same task
Re:Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless by verdverm on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:26PM (#50113166)
Get yourself an OpenCode Go sub for $10/month, it will go much much further
Re:Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless by fullstackwife on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:24AM (#50115662)
I used 50% in just one task(3d gamedev) on AI Pro in Antigravity desktop. It is not my daily driver anyways, but it was nice to see that it is actually performing and completing the task.