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1. andai+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-02-01 17:05:40
>Before you reach for a frontier model, ask yourself: does this actually need a trillion-parameter model?

>Most tasks don't. This repo helps you figure out which ones.

About a year ago I was testing Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash for agentic coding. I found they could both do the same task, but Gemini Pro was way slower and more expensive.

This blew my mind because I'd previously been obsessed with "best/smartest model", and suddenly realized what I actually wanted was "fastest/dumbest/cheapest model that can handle my task!"

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