I dunno. Even pretty weak models can be decently performant, and 9/10 the performance for 1/10 the price means 10x the output, and for a lot of stuff that quality difference dosent really matter. Considering even sota models are trash, slightly worse dosent really make that much difference.
Fair. Mostly the argument is, if all you need is to iterate on output to refine it, you get 10x the iterations, while lesser quality, its still a aspect to consider. But yes, why bother eine coding when they do make so many mistakes.
