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@onusozSTOP using Claude Code and Sl(opus) to code if ❌ you are not a developer, ❌ or you are an inexperienced dev, ❌ or you are an experienced dev but working on a codebase you don't understand If you *are* any of these, then STOP using models that are NOT state of the art. (See below for what you *should* use) When you don't know what you are doing, then at least the model should know what you are doing. The less knowledgeable and opinionated you are, the more knowledgeable and smart the AI has to be In other words, the AI has to compensate for your deficiencies. Always pay for the best AI you can. It will save you time AND money (thanks to lower token usage and better one-shotting) You pay MORE to pay LESS. It is paradoxical, I know, but it is also proven, e.g. when Sonnet ends up using more tokens than Slopus and ends up costing higher, because it has to try many times more 👨🏻⚕️ For January 2026, your family engineer recommends GPT 5.2 Codex with Extra High Reasoning for general usage and vibe coding. IMPORTANT: Not medium. Not high. EXTRA high reasoning When you use it, you will notice that it is SLOW. Can you guess why? Because it is THINKING more. So it doesn't make the mistakes Slopus makes. This way, you can spend the time handholding a worse model to instead step back and multi-task on some other task and create 3-5x more work The state of the art will most likely change in one month. Don't get married to a a model... There is no loyalty in AI... The moment a better model comes, I will ditch the old one and use that one. I am on the part of this sector that is trying to reduce switching costs to zero I can't wait until I get GPT 5.2 xhigh level of quality with open models, and for 100x cheaper and faster! Until then, make sure to try every option and choose the one that is most reliable for you Follow me to get notified when a new SOTA drops for agentic engineering