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Peter Kim Frank

Developers favor free tools and custom workflows

Fable 5 at Max effort? OpenAI's gpt-5.6? The latest Gemini models? Perhaps Kimi K3 or other open-weight models?

For your typical needs these days, what model do you tend to use and why?

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📚 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 📚 🚀 𝗗𝗘𝗩 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 🚀 ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ🍰🍔🍕 ₍₍⚞(˶>ᗜ<˶)⚟⁾⁾ "ᴀ ꜱᴍᴏᴏᴛʜ ꜱᴇᴀ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ᴀ ꜱᴋɪʟʟᴇᴅ ꜱᴀɪʟᴏʀ" - ꜰʀᴀɴᴋʟɪɴ ᴅ. ʀᴏᴏꜱᴇᴠᴇʟᴛ

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• Jul 29

I use Gemma4 (Cloud Version) via Ollama. It's free to use and I can integrate it in my VScode without an issue. I tend to not go with models that are paid because they are...paid. I like saving money lol

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Randal L. Schwartz

I'm a Google Developer Expert in Dart and Flutter (one of 12 in North America). I have 45 years of experience with backend, web, mobile, devops, and training.

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• Jul 29

I'm using Antigravity, running flash 3.6 medium, and my multi-step workflow: gist.github.com/RandalSchwartz/598... which has been organically grown using lots of real-world interations.

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