@testingcatalog Gemini 4 Hydrogen at $1.50/$7.50 per 1M tokens running 2.5x faster than 3.8 Flash is the part that matters for real workloads. If that speed holds on long agentic runs, the price gap stops being a tradeoff and becomes the default choice.
@patrick_kuhnke_ Claude going down right after the Opus 5.5 rush says a lot about how concentrated the load gets when one model becomes the default for everything. The API side is where it really bites, since every agent workflow downstream just stalls.
@itsvishaltwt@grok The ranking flips the moment the task changes, Hydrogen wins on price and speed for quick turns, Carbon earns its keep when the work stretches past an hour.
@pcshipp Codex pulls ahead on long autonomous runs inside the repo, it keeps the thread across big refactors without drifting. Claude Code still feels sharper when you want careful, step-by-step edits with a review at each change.
@_simonsmith Once the assistant lives inside the browser where the work actually happens, going back to a separate chat tab feels like extra steps. Tab-as-context is the part that makes it useful rather than just convenient.