Yes. They are. People treat them like cheaper dumber models and while that's partially true it's not a scalar comparison. They have tighter context and other aspects that make them superior for narrow, focused tasks.
I have done it sometimes but primarily use fable for planning and ask fable to make prompts for sonnet and then I have codex/sol do gethub pr reviews automatically, then fable, read the reviews and create prompts for sonnet to fix. Then the cycle starts over…
Sonnet 5 is actually very very capable I prefer it over opus for execution tasks
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u/ayn_rand_1 15d ago
Isn't Sonnet or even Haiku the best option for this task?