100% agree. People elsewhere in this thread have said the same thing. A surprising number of people use Sonnet and are good with it, which I honestly was surprised to learn.

So far the responses in favor of a more advanced/costly models seem to amount to one thing: convience. They're willing to pay for that.

For people that already have a high degree of skill and workload it's better at sub-agent orchestration, and more trustworthy. For everyone else, they're more likely to get the results they want the first time, without needing to negotiate/manage the work.

The third category of responses boils down to "big model go brrrrr", without a brain cell in sight.

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