Comment on Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?Comments−freakynit3mo1. gpt-5.5-medium for most demanding coding tasks.2. gpt-5.3-codex-medium for genrally most of the other coding tasks.3. deepseek-v4-flash for heavy agentic research/loops (non-coding related).4. mimo-v2.5-pro for crunching/summarizing large texts.5. gemini-3.1-flash-lite for image understanding.6. opus-4.7 very occasionally when gpt-5.5 fails, or vice-versa, and sonnet-4.6 when codex-5.3 fails.7. deepseek-v4-pro when I need to do a long agentic session, and want higher quality, for cheap (non-coding).8. perplexity/pplx-embed-v1-0.6b for embeddings, via openrouter.−kifler3moJust curious what constitutes a 'demanding' coding task for you.
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1. gpt-5.5-medium for most demanding coding tasks.
2. gpt-5.3-codex-medium for genrally most of the other coding tasks.
3. deepseek-v4-flash for heavy agentic research/loops (non-coding related).
4. mimo-v2.5-pro for crunching/summarizing large texts.
5. gemini-3.1-flash-lite for image understanding.
6. opus-4.7 very occasionally when gpt-5.5 fails, or vice-versa, and sonnet-4.6 when codex-5.3 fails.
7. deepseek-v4-pro when I need to do a long agentic session, and want higher quality, for cheap (non-coding).
8. perplexity/pplx-embed-v1-0.6b for embeddings, via openrouter.
Just curious what constitutes a 'demanding' coding task for you.