This week OpenAI released newer models, so it could now use a reassessment. They are: gpt-4.1 family, o3, o4-mini. Users are benefiting from the ongoing competition which hopefully will last all the way to self-improving AGI.
which version of Sonnet? thinking/reasoning or raw/one-shot?
3.7 can be useful for planning sometimes, but when making code changes it’s really hard for me to keep it from making unnecessary changes.
It seems to me that all of this is going to be a giant rugpull in the end. "Oh, you are saving the cost of a $40/per hour contractor? Well, we'll just charge you $35.99."
Until then, we might be in the golden era of cheap building, maybe?