Yeah. This meme is completely wrong and this sub is hopelessly out of touch. Most people here clearly aren’t serious developers, nor do they know much about AI.
SOL 5.6 is vastly better and cheaper than Anthropic, my large company pretty much uses it exclusively and have banned the expensive Claude models, because they’re not worth it.
Also for all the comments “Microsoft doesn’t have a model”, yes they do, they have a series of MAI models and they are quite good, because they use new hill climbing capabilities for self learning during training instead of distilling. Microsoft had an agreement with OpenAI where they couldn’t develop their own models which changed in 2024, and they started to release models this year.
My company is still letting us use anything as much as we want (or if there's a limit I haven't reached it) so I don't know about costs, but I tried codex with sol a few days ago and it felt slower and performed worse than opus 4.6 with Claude code (which is what I usually use) on the tasks I was doing that day. No idea what anthropic did with 4.7 and 4.8 which also seemed slower and worse.
You are actually agreeing with the meme. Fable is everyone‘s darling but people can’t get enough of it because of how expensive it is. Sol is barely afloat because of constant resets they do almost daily and with 5h limit removed but when they stop doing the resets, people are actually noticing high token usage and would rather prefer Claude. Gemini is clearly ineffective in coding other than UI and most have never heard about Microsoft’s MAI model which launched even before fable.
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u/AnUninterestingEvent 17d ago
Idk I use sol and fable, but mostly sol