Skip to content

Ask HN: Which large model works best?

1 pointjsxyzb2 comments
On HN

There are so many large models now, which one do you think is the most practical? Which professions will be replaced by big models

Comments

It depends heavily on what you are trying to do.

For pure coding tasks and refactoring, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is currently the strongest performer. It tends to hallucinate less on specific library syntax compared to the others.

However, for creative writing or "reasoning" through complex logic puzzles, I've found Gemini (specifically the Advanced/Ultra tiers) to have a more natural "voice" and better instruction following for long contexts.

GPT-4o is still the best generalist, but it feels like it has softened slightly while the others have specialized.

might want to give claude-opus-4.5 a spin if you haven't

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.